Phonological representations capture information about individual word forms and about the
general characteristics of word forms in a language. To support the processing of novel word …

Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

Covering all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects,
sociolinguistics and Arabic as a world language, this introductory guide is perfect for …

The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of
phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive …

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of
substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A …

This article presents a typology of consonant harmony or Long Distance Consonant
Agreement that is analyzed as arising through correspondence relations between …

Interest in the phonetics of sound change is as old as scientific linguistics (Osthoff and
Brugman 1878). The prevalent view is that a key component of sound change is what …

A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within
phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program. Vowel harmony results from a set of …

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology:
channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive …

In Hungarian, stems ending in a back vowel plus one or more neutral vowels show unusual
behaviour: for such stems, the otherwise general process of vowel harmony is lexically …