Tracy Lennertz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tracy Lennertz plays a role.
Articles
2015 On the sonority levels of fricatives and stops The Mental Lexicon 10:1, pp. 88–132 | Article
Across languages, stop-sonorant onsets are preferred to fricative-sonorant ones (e.g., pna ≻ fna), suggesting that stop-initial onsets are better formed. Here, we ask whether this preference is active in the linguistic competence of English speakers. To address this question, we compare stop- and… read more
2012 Universal linguistic pressures and their solutions: Evidence from Spanish The Mental Lexicon 7:3, pp. 275–305 | Article
Do speakers possess universal linguistic restrictions on the sound structure of their language? We examine this question by investigating the restrictions on onset clusters (e.g., bl in block). Cross-linguistic comparisons suggest that certain onset clusters are universally preferred: Onsets like… read more