1. Dynamics of Phonological Cognition.
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Gafos, Adamantios I. and Benus, Stefan
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GENERATIVE grammar , *PHONOLOGY , *PHONETICS , *COMPETENCE & performance (Linguistics) , *NEUTRALIZATION (Linguistics) , *VOWEL harmony , *COGNITIVE science , *LANGUAGE & languages , *VOCAL tract - Abstract
A fundamental problem in spoken language is the duality between the continuous aspects of phonetic performance and the discrete aspects of phonological competence. We study 2 instances of this problem from the phenomenon of voicing neutralization and vowel harmony. In each case, we present a model where the experimentally observed continuous distinctions are linked to the discreteness of phonological form using the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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