This paper aims to investigate whether--and how--consonant sonority (obstruent vs. sonorant) and status (coda vs. onset) within syllable boundaries modulate the syllable-based segmentation strategies. Here, it is questioned whether French dyslexic children, who experience acoustic-phonetic (i.e., voicing) and phonological impairments, are sensitive to an optimal 'sonorant coda-obstruent onset' ...

In an English phrase like "an ice cream", does the /n/ remain the coda of the first syllable, or is it resyllabified into the second syllable so that the phrase is no different from "a nice cream"? Or is it ambisyllabic: belonging simultaneously to both syllables? This is an issue that still remains a mystery today. In this study, we revisit this issue with the help of a recently developed tech...

We demonstrate that adult English speakers make use of perceptual principles in medial consonant cluster deletion. Cross-linguistically, consonant cluster simplification via deletion is more likely apply to the first consonant rather than the second consonant (if both consonants are of equal sonority). Adult native English speakers, were given a two-alternative forced-choice task in which eithe...

Three experiments used word-spotting to examine influences of phonetic and musical parameters on intelligibility of closed-set but unpredictable words in polytextual singing. Main comparisons were: 3 musical genres (medieval polyphonic motet, similar but homophonic motet, jingle); harmony (consonant, dissonant); keyword phonetic properties (‘acoustic contrast’, vowel length, vowel quality); con...

This study systematically investigates the temporal organization of American English onset and coda consonant clusters on the basis of kinematic data. Results suggest that consonants in complex onsets are organized globally with respect to the following vowel (c-center organization), while consonants in complex codas are coordinated sequentially. These results support the competitive coupling m...

One of the challenges in child language research is determining when children have acquired a particular linguistic structure, and of particular interest is the identification of factors that contribute to variable performance. The purpose of the current study is to better understand the mechanisms underlying children’s variable production of syllable-final (coda) consonants (e.g., moon). Fifte...

This paper investigates the coordination relations between f0 turning points and segmental landmarks in falling pitch accents in Catalan. Ten Central Catalan speakers participated in the production experiment, for a total of 500 target pitch accents. Results indicate that while the beginning of the falling accent gesture (H) is tightly synchronized with the onset of the accented syllable, the e...

This paper studies alliteration and rhyme in the traditional Kakataibo chants of Emilio Estrella Logía, one most important sabios present era. For rhyme, consonants which are able to be coda position according syllable structure play a central role. Alliteration is sporadic based on repetition fricative passages indeterminate length. It occurs onset freely within line across lines, latter by ad...

This paper investigates how different syllable affiliations of intervocalic /st/ cluster affect vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Very few studies have examined the effect of syllable structure on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Previous studies show that onset and coda consonants differ acoustically, articulatorily, perceptually and typologically. Onsets are stronger, more stable, more ...

The traditional phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant inventory links onset and coda consonants on basis historical alternations morphologically conditioned within a small subset lexicon. This proposes system resulting in large number neutralizations that cannot be dissolved, which allophones same lack shared phonetic content. We argue proposed by is impossible to learn from language input, ...