This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Syllables display symmetrical and asymmetrical properties in two Yoruba dialects. In the asymmetrical dialect, only a vowel with an onset ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the ...

Dyslexia is not only a problem related to reading; children with this difficulty also display impaired prosodic processing, in other words, they struggle to detect stressed syllables. A team of ...

Every language has an organised sound system. Phonology is concerned with processes in the mind, determining the rules of a language and how we organise, study and form sounds in speech. We each have ...

My main research interest is historical phonology, both to reconstruct the sounds of the past and to account for sound change over time. I focus on theories of diachronic phonology which interface ...