The Journal of Neuroscience, January 10, 2007 • 27(2):315–321 • 315 Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive Neural Attunement Processes in Infants during the Acquisition of a Language-Specific Phonemic Contrast

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Functional pressure from the lexicon shapes phoneme inventory evolution Andy Wedel The sound system of a language must be able to support perceptual contrast between different morphemes in order to signal communicatively

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Shigeto Kawahara 1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents 1 Introduction Japanese has a phonemic contrast between short and long nasal and obstruent consonant series, as exemplified by minimal pairs like [kata

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