Tracy Lennertz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tracy Lennertz is involved.

Articles

Lennertz, Tracy and Iris Berent 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

Berent, Iris, Tracy Lennertz and Monica Rosselli 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