In Pān. ini’s grammar one finds the Śivasūtras, a table which defines the natural classes of phonological segments in Sanskrit by intervals. We present a formal argument which shows that, using his representation method, Pān. ini has chosen an optimal way of ordering the phonological segments to represent the natural classes. The argument is based on a strict settheoretical point of view depend...

This paper presents a phonetic conversion system with phonological knowledge for Galician. The system allows us to evaluate several phonological processes, like syllabification or phonological derivation, as well as to transcript lexicons with phonetic annotation of different linguistic varieties automatically. The system consists of the following modules: (i) phonological conversion, which gen...

Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth, we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our linguistic communication and cultural technologies--reading and writing. Why are humans compelled to generate phonological patterns? Why are phonological patterns intimately grounded in their sensorimotor channels (speech...

We analyzed phonological and visual information processes of four Japanese dyslexic children between 710 years of age. None of them had disability in word retrieval and/or auditory memory. Two of them manifested lower score in phonological awareness tests while the others showed normal score. All children showed subnormal score in a visual cognitive test, a visuo-spacial constructional test, an...

The triple-code model, cognitive neuroimaging and developmental behavioral data suggest a specific association between phonological processing and arithmetic fact retrieval. Accordingly, individuals with deficits in phonological processing, such as individuals with developmental dyslexia, are expected to show difficulties in arithmetic fact retrieval. The present study tested this proposal in 2...

Brandon Prickett: The Effect of Complexity versus the Effect of Naturalness on Phonological Learning Recently a “surfeit of the stimulus” has been noticed in languages; specifically speakers do not seem to be learning all of the phonological patterns that exist in their language (Becker et al. 2007, 2008, 2011). Using the Hayes and Wilson (2008) phonotactic learner software to create a list of ...

Whether we analyze phonological processes using a system of rules or constraints, the resulting map from underlying representations to surface pronunciations can be characterized as function. Viewing mathematical objects in this way allows us study properties phonology that hold no matter how it is implemented. Work vein has found majority only consider information within finite window, placing...