This study addresses the question to which extent phonetic contrasts of a foreign language are perceived more easily by speakers of a native language that shares similar phonetic categories. The focus lies on two postalveolar and two alveolo-palatal affricates of Serbian: [t�] (postalveolar, voiceless), [�] (alveolo-palatal, voiceless), [�] (postalveolar, voiced) and [�] (alveolo-palatal, voice...

Whereas large-scale statistical analyses can robustly identify disease-gene relationships, they do not accurately capture genotype-phenotype correlations or disease mechanisms. We use multiple lines of independent evidence to show that different variant types in a single gene, SATB1, cause clinically overlapping but distinct neurodevelopmental disorders. Clinical evaluation 42 individuals carry...