Language and Speech articles from December 2007

Language and Speech archives from December 2007

Speech error elicitation and co-occurrence restrictions in two Ethiopian Semitic languages.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Abstract This article reports the results of speech error elicitation experiments investigating the role of two consonant co-occurrence restrictions in the productive grammar of speakers of two Ethiopian Semitic languages, Amharic and...

Orthographic representations in spoken word priming: no early automatic activation.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Abstract The current study investigated the modulation by orthographic knowledge of the final overlap phonological priming effect, contrasting spoken prime-target pairs with congruent spellings (e.g., 'carreau-bourreau',/karo/-/buro/) to...

Rhythm versus analogy: prosodic form variation in Dutch compounds.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Abstract Creating compound nouns is the most productive process of Dutch morphology, with an interesting pattern of form variation. For instance, staat 'nation' simply combines with kunde 'art' (staatkunde 'political science,...

The analysis of low accentuation in Estonian.(Report)
December 1, 2007... Abstract In Estonian, as in a number of other languages, the nuclear pitch accent is often low and level. This paper presents two studies of this phenomenon. The first, a phonetic analysis of carefully structured read sentences shows that...