From 2015 to 2018, she was a member of the doctoral research training group “DFG GRK 1624: Frequency effects in language” at the University of Freiburg. Sophia Wulfert studied General Linguistics at the Technische Universität Berlin and Scandinavian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It is one of the first works to demonstrate frequency effects for consonant clusters. A striking parallel is revealed between perception and production of consonant clusters in terms of which factors and principles facilitate or hamper their processing. It discusses their role as potential units in speech perception and explores possibilities for consonant clusters having their own mental representations. target-language cluster frequencies in speech perception.Īgainst the background of usage-based linguistics and connectionist models of speech perception and production, this book expounds the mechanisms at work during the processing of consonant clusters. The non-native listening experiment moreover allows for a comparison of the roles of native-language vs. language-specific sound sequencing preferences in sublexical processing. The results of these experiments have implications for the roles of universal vs. This book presents three experimental studies of sublexical speech processing that aim to answer the question how universal principles of syllabic wellformedness like the Sonority Sequencing Principle, on the one hand, and experience with language-specific phonotactic distributions, on the other hand, influence perception and production of German initial consonant clusters.Įffects of consonant cluster frequency and sonority sequencing are compared in a) an experiment of pseudoword identification in noise with native German listeners, b) a parallel experiment with Australian learners of German, and c) an experiment of pseudoword repetition in a tongue twister paradigm.
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