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Berent, Iris; Steriade, Donca; Lennertz, Tracy; Vaknin, Vered – Cognition, 2007
Are speakers equipped with preferences concerning grammatical structures that are absent in their language? We examine this question by investigating the sensitivity of English speakers to the sonority of onset clusters. Linguistic research suggests that certain onset clusters are universally preferred (e.g., "bd" is greater than "lb"). We…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Research, Grammar, Russian