Perception on complex onsets

[George Allen]

Dear Yvan,

Might it have something to do with the problem I identified in my earlier paper?

How the young French child avoids the pre-voicing problem for
word-initial voiced stops. J Child Lang. 1985 Feb;12(1):37-46.

George Allen

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On 11/6/06, Yvan Rose <yrose at mun.ca> wrote:
> Dear Info-CHILDES members,
> We are currently looking at data that suggest an asymmetry between
> the behaviours of /kl/ and /gl/ clusters in a young French-learning
> child. The asymmetry goes as follows:
>
> /kl/ -> [k]/[kl]
> /gl/ -> [l]
>
> These data are difficult to explain from a representational
> perspectives (the clusters should share similar prosodic
> representations) and cannot be explained through a statistical
> account. We are now entertaining the possibility that perceptual
> factors may play a role.
>
> If you could suggest references about the perception of such
> clusters, or of velars and liquids in general, we would most
> appreciate it. We will of course collate the results and report them
> back to the list for your interest.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Yvan Rose (& Christophe dos Santos)
>
>