Phonologically determined asymmetries in vocabulary structure across languages

Anne Cutler; Takashi Otake; Laurence Bruggeman

doi:10.1121/1.4737596

Phonologically determined asymmetries in vocabulary structure across languages

Anne Cutler^*, Takashi Otake, Laurence Bruggeman

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Abstract

Studies of spoken-word recognition have revealed that competition from embedded words differs in strength as a function of where in the carrier word the embedded word is found and have further shown embedding patterns to be skewed such that embeddings in initial position in carriers outnumber embeddings in final position. Lexico-statistical analyses show that this skew is highly attenuated in Japanese, a noninflectional language. Comparison of the extent of the asymmetry in the three Germanic languages English, Dutch, and German allows the source to be traced to a combination of suffixal morphology and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	EL155-EL160
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume	132
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4737596
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

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