Birdsong shows striking parallels with human speech. Previous comparisons between
birdsong and human vocalizations focused on syntax, phonology and phonetics. In this review, …

One particularly useful way of addressing the issue of adequacy of constraints is the construction
of factorial typologies. If we compare factorial typologies on the criterion of how closely …

Prosodic size restrictions on specific morphological domains occur in many languages. The
best-known size limitation (one which is often imposed on stems, and on reduplicants) is the …

Probabilistic phonotactic knowledge facilitates perception, but categorical phonotactic
illegality can cause misperceptions, especially of non-native phoneme combinations. If …