English speakers’ sensitivity to the phonotactic probabilities of ‘CV-’ and ‘-VC’ components of CVC syllables in English
0
조회
0
다운로드
2
인용
0
참고문헌
초록
Abstract
This paper examines the characteristic of English-speakers’ sensitivity to the degree of association between phonemes at the sub-syllabic level. One major finding of the current study is that, replicating findings from previous studies (e.g., Treiman , Kessler, Knewasser, Tincoff, and Bowman, 2000), speakers of English are sensitive to the difference in phonotactic probabilities governing the vowel and coda (VC) sequences of English CVC words. Wordlikeness judgments were higher for English CVC nonwords that contain more probable VC than less probable VC sequences in English. A second independent finding of the current study is that speakers of English have developed a similar sensitivity in the case of sub-syllabic dependencies for segment sequences other than vowel-coda sequences (that have been claimed to form ‘rime’ in the traditional literature). That is, English-speaking subjects judged nonce CVC words containing a relatively highly probable onset-vowel sequence to be better sounding English words than those containing a low probability onset-vowel sequence. The current finding indicates that, contra what the traditional onset-rime model of English syllable structure would predict, English speakers are sensitive to the difference in phonotactic probabilities governing segment sequences that cross the rime constituent. The implications of these findings for the representation of the internal structure of English syllables are discussed.
참고문헌 (20)
- "The CELEX Lexical Database (CDROM)" (1995), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium
- "Magnitude Estimation of Linguistic Acceptability", 72, pp.32~68 (1996)
- "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Phonological Units: Syllables Emerge from the Statistics of Mandarin Chinese, but not from the Statistics of English", Chicago, IL
- "Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability", pp.49~56 (1997), NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics
- "Experimental Syntax: Applying Objective Methods to Sentence Judgments" (1997), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
- "Structure and content in language production A theory of frame constraints in phonological speech errors", pp.149~195 (1993)
- "Similarity avoidance and the OCP", 22, pp.179~228 (2004)
- "Perception of wordlikeness: Effects of segmental probability and length on the processing of nonwords", 42, pp.481~496 (2000)
- "A perceptually-driven account of onset-sensitive stress", 23, pp.595~653 (2005)
- "Compensating Lengthening in Moraic Phonology", pp.253~306 (1989)
- "Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies" (1995), Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- "Infants' sensitivity to phonotactic patterns in the native language", 33, pp.630~645 (1994)
- "Syllable Structure and the Distribution of Phonemes in English Syllables", 37, pp.295~311 (1997)
- "Sub-syllabic constituency in Korean and English" (2006)
- "Quantitative Measurement of Opinions" (1981), Sage Publications
- "The Exploitation of Distributional Information in Syllable Processing", 17, pp.97~119 (2004)
- "Word Games and Syllable Structure", 38, pp.77~114 (1995)
- "Statistical learning by 8-month old infants", 274, pp.1926~1928 (1996)
- "English Speakers' Sensitivity to Phonotactic Patterns", V, pp.269~282 (2000), Acquisition and Lexicon
- "Phonotactics and Syllable Stress: Implications for the Processing of Spoken Nonsense Words", 40, pp.47~62 (1997)