Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has
been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from language scientists …

Iconic mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once
estimated and seem to support children's acquisition of new words, spoken or signed. We …

This study examined a potential lexicality advantage in young children's early speech
production: do children produce sound sequences less accurately in nonwords than real …

This study examines lexical and phonological factors that influence word production and
pronunciation. Specifically, we investigate whether phonological production (measured by …

Word complexity indices, such as the Index of Phonetic Complexity (IPC) and the Word
Complexity Measure (WCM), code a word in terms of featural and structural properties that …

Dialect emergence or new-dialect formation in intensive contact situations has been the
subject of research for decades. Approaches to dialect emergence have led to a more solid …

This is a study of early word learning and phonological development in children learning
Mandarin Chinese in Singapore. Previous work has analysed mostly children's perception …

Emergence of accuracy is a first step toward acquiring adult-like phonological abilities.
Mandarin Chinese is a tone language where speakers employ both tonal and segmental …

Abstract Similar Place Avoidance (SPA) is a phenomenon well-known to adult languages,
where consonants within a root that share the same place of articulation are avoided. The …