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Determining cross-linguistic phonological similarity between segments: The primacy of abstract aspects of similarity
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Although the general notion of "phonological similarity" has figured prominently in linguistic scholarship, the manner in which talkers determine similarity between phonological units is not well understood. Recent research has shown that perceptual similarity does not account for input-output mappings between languages as well as it does within a language. I argue that this disparity arises due to the fact that, unlike phonological similarity within a language, phonological similarity between languages is highly influenced by an abstract, between-system level of analysis that is only relevant cross-linguistically. I review an array of findings in cross-linguistic research to demonstrate, first, a dissociation between acoustic distance and phonemic correspondence and, second, a consistent preference for relating segments and natural classes cross-linguistically on the basis of phonemic correspondence. This type of abstract comparison helps to explain why effects of perceptual similarity are often masked in cross-linguistic circumstances, and I point to possible bases of these comparisons: (1) inventory niches based on contrastive feature oppositions and/or relative phonetics, and (2) distributional parallelisms.
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P Philology. Linguistics
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URL: https://googledrive.com/host/0B1_NoAiLQlnkZ2kwQlFrVmRIZVU/Chang_SegmentVol.pdf https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19099/1/Chang_SegmentVol.pdf https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19099/
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On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese
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Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning
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Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language
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The production and perception of coronal fricatives in Seoul Korean: The case for a fourth laryngeal category
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A statistical study on ELF-whistlers/emissions and M ≥ 5.0 earthquakes in Taiwan
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Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners
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Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-language learning on first-language speech production
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Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual
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Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure
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Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin
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Early Oral Language Markers of Poor Reading Performance in Hong Kong Chinese Children
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The phonetic space of phonological categories in heritage speakers of Mandarin
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First language phonetic drift during second language acquisition
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Optional elements and variant structures in the productions of bei2 ‘to give’ dative constructions in Cantonese-speaking adults and three-year-old children
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In: Journal of Child Language, 01-01-2010 (2010)
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Bridging the Gap between Graph Modeling and Developmental Psycholinguistics: An Experiment on Measuring Lexical Proximity in Chinese Semantic Space
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In: Proceding of The 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ; 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00992105 ; 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2009, Hong Kong SAR China. pp.118--130 (2009)
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