Abstract phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological ...

BOSTON, Mass. -- All languages—spoken or signed—are comprised of patterns of meaningless elements. We distinguish "god" and "dog"; we write blogs (not lbogs), and rhyme flood and blood. We begin ...

Phonology is one of several aspects of a natural language and it is the study of sound systems of languages. The purpose of this article is to study and describe the phonemic system of the dialect of ...

In contemporary research on language development, there is a renewed focus on what babies (should) hear. For example, public initiatives, like the “30-million word gap” or “Providence Talks,” apply ...