Biases for Vowel Harmony Over Disharmony in Phoneme Monitoring.
Previous research exploring the learnability of vowel harmony (a phonetically natural pattern) and vowel disharmony (a phonetically unnatural pattern) has shown mixed evidence for a naturalness bias. This study aims to clarify these mixed results by introducing a more sensitive and indirect measure...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 805 - 829 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2026
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