Abstract
This paper reports the results of a wordlikeness task designed to investigate Cantonese speakers’ gradient phonotactic knowledge of systematic versus accidental phonotactic gaps. Regression analyses found that wordlikeness judgments correlate with token frequency-weighted neighborhood density and transitional (bigram) probability.This is suggested to be an effect of the relative phonological densities of the Cantonese and English lexica.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Subtitle of host publication | ICPhS XVI |
| Place of Publication | Saarbruken |
| Pages | 1389-1392 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Phonetics
- Dutch
- Phonology
- statistical modeling