Toward a generative theory of language transfer: Experiment and modeling of sC prothesis in L2 Spanish

When native Spanish speakers produce English words with initial [s]-consonant clusters (sC), they sometimes produce a prothetic vowel, e.g. stigma > estigma. This paper reports a production experiment on this phenomena, as well as computational modelling of the experimental results. Carlisle (199...

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Main Authors: Daland Robert, Norrmann-Vigil Ingrid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2015-0024/opli-2015-0024.xml?format=INT