GRADIENCE, PHONOTACTICS, AND THE LEXICON IN ENGLISH PHONOLOGY

Experimental work has established that when subjects judge the phonological wellformedness of nonsense forms, they are strongly affected by the frequency of the phonological elements of the form and by the number of actual words that such a form is similar to. These results challenge phonological th...

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Main Author: Michael Hammond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2004-12-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/47961