The term sonority projection refers to behavioural distinctions speakers make between
unattested phonological sequences on the basis of sonority. For example, among onset …

This article shows that specific properties of long-distance phonotactic patterns derived from
consonantal harmony patterns (Hansson 2001, Rose and Walker 2004) follow from a …

A diverse set of empirical findings indicate that word predictability in context influences the
fine-grained details of both speech production and comprehension. In particular, lower …

Computational phonology studies sound patterns in the world's languages from a
computational perspective. This article shows that the similarities between different …

Recent evidence suggests that cognitive pressures associated with language acquisition
and use could affect the organization of the lexicon. On one hand, consistent with noisy …

This dissertation proposes a model of phonological relationships, the Probabilistic
Phonological Relationship Model (PPRM), that quantifies how predictably distributed two …

This paper presents a previously unnoticed universal property of stress patterns in the
world's languages: they are, for small neighbourhoods, neighbourhood-distinct …

Morphophonological alternations often involve dependencies between adjacent segments.
Despite the apparent distance between relevant segments in the alternations that arise in …

4 Markedness Page 115 4 Markedness Elizabeth Hume 1 Introduction Markedness is one of
the most widely used concepts in phonology and other areas of linguistics. The picture is …

Semi-regular phonological processes occur often in natural language. For example,
rendaku voicing in Japanese fails to occur in a seemingly random fashion among roughly …