Linguistics

Phonology modulates the illusory vowels in perceptual illusions: Evidence from Mandarin and English

Durvasula, K; Huang, H-H; Uehara, S; Luo, Q; Lin, Y-H (Ubiquity Press, 2018-04-27)

Native speakers perceive illusory vowels when presented with sound sequences that do not respect the phonotactic constraints of their language (Dupoux, Kakehi, Hirose, Pallier, & Mehler, 1999; Kabak & Idsardi, 2007). There ...
Same difference: The phonetic shape of High Rising Terminals in London

LEV-ON, EM (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-08-29)
Early, equivalent ERP masked priming effects for regular and irregular morphology.

Morris, J; Stockall, L (Elsevier, 2012-08-20)

Converging evidence from behavioral masked priming (Rastle & Davis, 2008), EEG masked priming (Morris, Frank, Grainger, & Holcomb, 2007) and single word MEG (Zweig & Pylkkänen, 2008) experiments has provided robust support ...
Intonation plays a role in language discrimination by infants

CHONG, AJ; Vicenik, C; Sundara, M (Wiley, 2018-08-23)
Ergativity and Austronesian-type voice systems

VAN URK, C; Erlewine, M; Levin, T (Oxford University Press, 2017-08)

Many languages of the Austronesian family exhibit what has been called a “voice system”: a particular pattern of alternations in word order, case marking, and verbal morphology, which also interacts with Ā-extraction. The ...

Browse