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Tamási, Katalin; Berent, Iris – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
Linguistic evidence suggests that syllables like "bdam" (with stop-stop clusters) are less preferred than "bzam" (with stop-fricative combinations). Here, we demonstrate that English speakers manifest similar preferences despite no direct experience with either structure. Experiment 1 elicited syllable count for auditory…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Phonemes, English