Items for "cognitive phonology"

Category overlap and neutralization: The importance of speakers' classifications in phonology

This article briefly reviews categorization models in both cognitive psychology and cognitive phonology in order to set the background for a psycholinguistically plausible account of the classification of the allophones involved in category overlaps (i.e., the overlapping areas between phoneme categories) and in the so-called positions of neutralization...

Keywords: cognitive phonology, categorization, category overlap, neutralization, archiphonemes