phonological pattern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphonologicalandpattern
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phonological
adjective
uk/ˌfɒn.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌfoʊ.nəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the sounds in a particular language or in languages, or to the study ...
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pattern
noun
uk/ˈpæt.ən/us/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofphonologicalandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is not immediately clear whether this preference is a distinctphonologicalpattern, or merely the consequence of the cooccurrence restrictions.
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Thus, the effect is one of an abstractphonologicalpatternon parsing, not an effect of transitional probabilities.
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If thephonologicalpatternof the language changes, then it is meet to suggest that the patterns of off-rhymes will change too.
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The illicit sound is replaced by one that is phonetically close - usually phonetically closer than the sound adaptations of the regularphonologicalpattern.
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For example, infants might have noted thephonologicalpatterntel'yem during familiarization.
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If children do produce gender errors, do any particular characteristics of the word, such as semantic transparency andphonologicalpattern, impact the presence of this type of error?
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Bachra concludes that the primaryphonologicalpatterninvolves restrictions on feature co-occurrence.
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I do not currently have any evidence that front coronals group with lax vowels in phonological patterns.
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Some inserted vowels affect phonological patterns like stress assignment, while others do not.
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As discussed above, children are sensitive to the frequency of phonological patterns at many levels of linguistic representation.
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Therefore, infants might have responded based on familiar phonological patterns.
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A more promising candidate for dealing with the phonological patterns is phonology itself.
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One answer is that young children make use of the phonological patterns in word structure and their co-occurrence with gender marked articles.
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Other phonological patterns which have not yet been identified may be more important.
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Significantly, these new models are especially useful for researchers attempting to incorporate phonetic substance directly into accounts of phonological patterns.
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One important issue that was not raised in the above discussion involves the rarity of phonological patterns of vowel raising after voiced obstruents.
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Phonetically natural patterns such as this one aren't the only phonological patterns, but they are the ones most likely to recur across languages.
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