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Phonologically determined asymmetries in vocabulary structure across languages

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Cutler,  Anne
Language Comprehension Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney;

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Bruggeman,  Laurence
Language Comprehension Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Cutler, A., Otake, T., & Bruggeman, L. (2012). Phonologically determined asymmetries in vocabulary structure across languages. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(2), EL155-EL160. doi:10.1121/1.4737596.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-A0B4-3
Abstract
Studies of spoken-word recognition have revealed that competition from embedded words differs in strength as a function of where in the carrier word the embedded word is found and have further shown embedding patterns to be skewed such that embeddings in initial position in carriers outnumber embeddings in final position. Lexico-statistical analyses show that this skew is highly attenuated in Japanese, a noninflectional language. Comparison of the extent of the asymmetry in the three Germanic languages English, Dutch, and German allows the source to be traced to a combination of suffixal morphology and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables.