Phonology – the systematic organisation of sounds in language – plays a critical role in language acquisition, reflecting the interplay between innate predispositions and environmental input. Research ...

Psycholinguists from the Center for Language and Brain found that phonological processing skills continue to influence text ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the markedness model of SPE (Chomsky & Halle 1968), redundancy rules lose their ability to characterize regularities and must convert ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Automatic alternations, those traditionally understood to be required by phonetic structure, have not been a part of transformational ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language—its structure and diversity, how it’s learned and understood, and how it shapes cultural practices. As a linguistics major you’ll study all ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...