Original paper
Constraints of Tones, Vowels and Consonants on Lexical Selection in Mandarin Chinese
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that when speakers of European languages are asked to turn nonwords into words by altering either a vowel or consonant, they tend to treat vowels as more mutable than consonants. These results inspired the universal vowel mutability hypothesis: listeners learn to cope with vowel variability because vowel information constrains lexical selection less tightly and allows for more potential candidates than does consonant...
Paper Details
Title
Constraints of Tones, Vowels and Consonants on Lexical Selection in Mandarin Chinese
Published Date
Apr 6, 2015
Journal
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
59 - 82
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