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Phonetics and phonology: On sounds and sound systems
Phonetics and phonology are the two branches of linguistics which deal with the properties and functions of sounds. Although they are tightly...
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Romani Phonology
The chapter serves as a descriptive introduction to the complex sound system of the Romani language. It provides an outline of the core phoneme...
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Another Book on the Alphabet?
Traditional approaches to the alphabet are reviewed and contrasted with the unrecognized phonological exceptionalism of our alphabetic letter names....
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Neurolinguistics in China
Neurolinguistics is a nascent interdisciplinary field that studies language and the human brain at the frontier of modern scientific research. The...
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Allophonic Variation in English
This chapter builds awareness of coordinated articulatory habits and their acoustic realizations when vowels and consonants are combined into simple...
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Neurolinguistics in China
Neurolinguistics is a nascent interdisciplinary field that studies language and the human brain at the frontier of modern scientific research. The...
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Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu
We present a case study of grammatical tone allomorphy in Cilungu (Bantu). Tense/Aspect/Mood designations (TAMs) are realized via co-exponence of...
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English reading performance by Spanish speaking children: A phonologically or semantically mediated pathway?
Reading acquisition involves connections between the spoken language and the writing system. The English-language writing system holds an...
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Shallow or deep? The impact of orthographic depth on visual processing impairments in developmental dyslexia
The extent to which impaired visual and phonological mechanisms may contribute to the manifestation of developmental dyslexia across orthographies of...
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Learning a typologically unusual reduplication pattern: An artificial language learning study of base-dependent reduplication
We report on an artificial language learning experiment testing the learnability of a typologically rare pattern of reduplication. Our model comes...
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Monolingual-Bilingual (Non-)convergence in L3 Rhythm
This study examines the production of speech rhythm in Turkish-German bilinguals and German monolinguals in their L3 English and their L1/L2...
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Some Conceptual Issues in Systemic Functional Linguistics
In this chapter, we examine some conceptual issues in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). We first interpret the meaning of “systemic” and...
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The primacy of morphology in English braille spelling: an analysis of bridging contractions
This study examines the use of braille contractions in a corpus of spelling tests from braille-reading children in grades 1-4, with particular...
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Cognition in Systemic Functional Linguistics
In this chapter, we first place cognitive systems within the four orders of systems in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Then we discuss how...
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Two Disciplines: Linguistics and Sociology
Disciplines organise academic knowledge and institutions. Professors belong to at least one discipline. They also contribute to sub-disciplinary...
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False Starts
Together with self-corrections, false starts are a kind of self-repair, and of obvious relevance to constructs of fluency in the L2 classroom. They...
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Durational Correlates of Geminate Stops: The Case of Berber and Japanese
Berber and Japanese languages are referred to as quantity languages. It is usually posited that closure duration is cross-linguistically the most...
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Modeling morphological processing in Korean: within- and cross-scriptal priming effects on the recognition of Sino-Korean compound words
While the theoretical models of morphological processing in Roman alphabets indicate prelexical activation, a model established in Korean suggests...
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Syntagmatic paradigms: learning correspondence from contiguity
Morphological paradigms are linked together by relations of paradigmatic predictability (implicative relations): when a speaker knows one form of a...
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The Psychology of Reading
This chapter starts to turns our attention towards the empirical element of this exploration of the reading experience: namely, the design, testing...