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Direct linkBerent, Iris; Vaknin, Vered; Shimron, Joseph – Brain and Language, 2004
Hebrew constrains the occurrence of identical consonants in its roots: Identical consonants are acceptable root finally (e.g., skk), but not root initially (e.g., kks). Speakers' ability to freely generalize this constraint to novel phonemes (Berent, Marcus, Shimron, & Gafos, 2002) suggests that they represent segment identity-a relation among…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Phonology
