dense neighbourhood
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdenseandneighbourhood
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dense
adjective
uk/dens/us/dens/
having parts that are close together so that it is difficult to go or ...
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neighbourhood
noun[C]
uk/ˈneɪ.bə.hʊd/us/ˈneɪ.bɚ.hʊd/
the area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the people who live in ...
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By these results,denseneighbourhoodstructure may be eschewed in developmental productive change.
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In particular, word frequency emerged as the most salient factor in promoting productive sound change, whereasdenseneighbourhoodstructure appeared to be most restrictive.
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Nonetheless, it is striking that for both populations,denseneighbourhoodstructure appears to be impregnable to productive sound change.
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Finally, structural organization may be asymmetric, varying across sparse and dense neighbourhoods.
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That is, sparse neighbourhoods seemed to have less detailed segmental representations of the rhyme than dense neighbourhoods.
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Figure 1 displays the proportion of ' neighbour of the standard ' responses for standard words from dense neighbourhoods.
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Presumably, dense neighbourhoods, like sparse neighbourhoods, would go through a period where membership is based on manner similarity in the rhyme position.
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The results showed that membership in dense neighbourhoods seemed to be based on phoneme similarity in either the onsetjnucleus or the rhyme position.
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Extending this further, dense neighbourhoods may even be structured by phoneme similarity in the onsetjnucleus or rhyme position as early as infancy.
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The reason is that accurate productions of words from dense neighbourhoods would prevent the occurrence of homonymy.
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Continued investigations of younger children, two- and three-year-olds, may help to better delineate this developmental course of lexical restructuring in dense neighbourhoods.
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Restructuring of dense neighbourhoods will predictably follow a similar path, but is likely to be accelerated because of the greater potential for confusion between phonologically similar words.
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Given this, it might be thought that early acquired words in dense neighbourhoods will also be resistant to productive change since they may have the most longevity and stability.
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Presumably, dense neighbourhoods would follow a parallel course of development, but at an accelerated rate due to the greater confusability of words in dense neighbourhoods relative to sparse neighbourhoods.
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At first glance, this may seem a plausible reason for children's attraction to dense neighbourhoods in perception, as compared to their avoidance of dense neighbourhoods in production.
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