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*FF as a Phonotactic Constraint in English: Evidence from an Acoustic Study

The article presents an empirical study on the laryngeal pattern of English obstruents in ‘voiceless’ obstruent clusters (VOCs) in light of Szigetvári’s (2020) *FortisFortis (*FF) phonotactic claim, which posits that adjacent fortis obstruents are prohibited within morphemes due to articulatory constraints. Using acous...

Building L2 phonology with contrast and alternation

This study investigates how alternations influence the acquisition of L2 phonological features, focusing on Mandarin speakers’ acquisition of voicing in Russian stops. Mandarin captures this contrast using [spread glottis], whereas Russian employs [voice]. Naive learners were divided into two training groups: the R...

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