Anything goes: Czech initial clusters run against evidence from a dichotic experiment.

Authors

DUMERCY Laurent LAVIGNE Frédéric SCHEER Tobias ZIKOVÁ Markéta

Year of publication 2013
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description Some languages restrict word-initial clusters to TR, while others also allow for RT, TT and RR. The former, TR-only languages, are represented by Romance and Germanic, while the latter, anything-goes languages, are typical for Czech. While TR-only languages instantiate words with all logically possible muta cum liquida clusters, anything-goes languages only implement a small minority of logically possible #RT, #TT and #RR clusters (while, like TR-only languages, providing for all #TR clusters). This talk proposes to test the prediction that really anything goes in anything-goes languages with the experimental technique of dichotic perception.

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