Abstract Language experience systematically constrains perception of speech contrasts that
deviate phonologically and/or phonetically from those of the listener's native language …

Title description This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers
provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception …

This study examined the production of English/b/and the perception of short-lag
English/bdg/tokens by four groups of bilinguals who differed according to their age of arrival …

Phonological rules relate surface phonetic word forms to abstract underlying forms that are
stored in the lexicon. Infants must thus acquire these rules in order to infer the abstract …

As part of knowledge of language, an adult speaker possesses information on which sounds
are used in the language and on the distribution of these sounds in a multidimensional …

This paper presents an overview of phonological relationships that are “intermediate”
between contrast and allophony. As has been observed for many years, such intermediate …

Infants' phonological acquisition during the first 18 months of life has been studied within
experimental psychology for some 30 years. Current research themes include statistical …

This dissertation proposes a model of phonological relationships, the Probabilistic
Phonological Relationship Model (PPRM), that quantifies how predictably distributed two …

We argue that the common phonological assumptions that (i) plain voiceless consonants are
less marked than voiceless aspirates and (ii) the unmarked two-way stop system opposes …

To examine the relationship between the identification and discrimination of non-native
sounds, nasal consonants varying in place of articulation from Malayalam, Marathi, and …