Universal Constraints on the Sound Structure of Language: Phonological or Acoustic?
Universal Constraints on the Sound Structure of Language: Phonological or Acoustic?
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DOI：
10.1037/a0017638
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发表时间：
2010-02-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Lennertz, Tracy
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作者：
Berent, Iris;Lennertz, Tracy
已知语言对声音结构有普遍的限制。但是，这种限制的根源是有争议的：它们是否反映了抽象的语音知识或语言经验和听觉感知的特性？我们通过研究对发作结构的限制来解决这个问题。在各种语言中，分配了小的超音速距离（例如，将lb分配给BN）。先前使用听觉材料的研究表明，这种偏好调节了英语说话者对未经证实的洋洋观的看法：相对于良好形式的打击（例如，BN），相对于良好的洋洋（例如，BN）而言，普遍不良的打击（例如，lba-> leba）是系统地误会的（例如，lba-> leba）。在这里，我们表明，处理普遍不良的Onset的困难扩展到印刷材料。辅助测试表明，这种困难反映了语音学而不是拼字法知识，而回归分析表明，这种知识超出了词典的统计特性。这些发现表明，在输入方式方面，说话者具有抽象的，可能是通用的语音知识。
Languages are known to exhibit universal restrictions on sound structure. The source of such restrictions, however, is contentious: Do they reflect abstract phonological knowledge, or properties of linguistic experience and auditory perception? We address this question by investigating the restrictions on onset structure. Across languages, onsets of small sonority distances are dispreferred (e.g., lb is dispreferred to bn). Previous research with aural materials demonstrates such preferences modulate the perception of unattested onsets by English speakers: Universally ill-formed onsets are systematically misperceived (e.g., lba -> leba) relative to well-formed onsets (e.g., bn). Here, we show that the difficulty to process universally ill-formed onsets extends to printed materials. Auxiliary tests indicate that such difficulties reflect phonological, rather than orthographic knowledge, and regression analyses demonstrate such knowledge goes beyond the statistical properties of the lexicon. These findings suggest that speakers have abstract, possibly universal, phonological knowledge that is general with respect to input modality.