The similar rates of occurrence of consonants across the world's languages: A quantitative analysis of phonetically transcribed word lists
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DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2018.07.003
Abstract: Abstract Via an analysis of nearly 7000 phonetically transcribed word lists representing every major linguistic family, this study examines the frequency with which languages use particular consonants. The results suggest that there is an underlying… read more here.
Keywords: transcribed word; word; rates occurrence; analysis ... See more keywords
Neural tracking of phrases in spoken language comprehension is automatic and task-dependent
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.77468
Abstract: Linguistic phrases are tracked in sentences even though there is no one-to-one acoustic phrase marker in the physical signal. This phenomenon suggests an automatic tracking of abstract linguistic structure that is endogenously generated by the… read more here.
Keywords: information; tracking; language; task ... See more keywords