Overview
biography
- Published numerous articles and books on Applied Phonology. Among those are Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology, Applied English Phonology, Unusual Productions in Phonology: universals and Language-Specific Considerations, Phonology: Development and Disorders, First and Second Language Phonology.
research interests
- Phonetics and Phonology
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected scholarly works & creative activities
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Article
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2018Patterns in German /integral C/-cluster acquisition. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 32:913-931.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1469670 Web of Science: 000443853000002
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2017Vowel reduction in word-final position by early and late Spanish-English bilinguals. PLOS ONE. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175226 Web of Science: 000399371900126
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2016Durational variability of schwa in early and late Spanish-English bilinguals. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM. 20:190-209.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1367006914547936 Web of Science: 000374039600006
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2014Acquisition of Polish #sC clusters in typically-developing children and children with phonological disorders. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY. 16:132-141.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/17549507.2013.794862 Web of Science: 000333035000005
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2013International aspirations for speech-language pathologists' practice with multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Development of a position paper. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS. 46:375-387.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2013.04.003
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2013What explains the reductions in /s/-clusters: Sonority or [continuant]?. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 27:394-403.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2013.767378 Web of Science: 000319063400002
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2011Patterns of cluster reduction in the acquisition of #sC onsets: Are bilinguals different from monolinguals?. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 25:981-988.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2011.616643 Web of Science: 000297270400012
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2010Acquisition of vertical bar s vertical bar clusters in English-speaking children with phonological disorders. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 24:177-187.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200903362935 Web of Science: 000274856000002
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2010Acquisition of vertical bar s vertical bar-clusters in Spanish-English bilingual children with phonological disorders. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 24:188-198.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200903362919 Web of Science: 000274856000003
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2010Sonority and the acquisition of vertical bar s vertical bar clusters in children with phonological disorders. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 24:169-176.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200903362901 Web of Science: 000274856000001
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2008Sonority and cross-linguistic acquisition of initial s-clusters. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 22:421-441.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02699200701875864 Web of Science: 000256006200002
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2006The effects of place of articulation and vowel height in the acquisition of English aspirated stops by Spanish speakers. IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 44:251-263.Full Text via DOI: 10.1515/IRAL.2006.011
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2006Acquisition of #sC clusters in English speaking childrenFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/14769670601110481
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2005Patterns of acquisition of /s/-clusters in Spanish-English bilingualsFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/14769670400018323
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2004Liquid development in Turkish: Salience vs. FrequencyFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/14769670310001659717
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2001Phonemic awareness of coda consonants and sonority in bilingual children. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 15:35-39.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/026992001461271
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2001Phonemic awareness of coda consonants and sonority in bilingual children. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 15:35-39.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200109167627 Web of Science: 000166857400008
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2000Book Reviews: Language acquisition across North America Orlando L. Taylor and Laurence B. Leonard (Eds.) (1999). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM. 4:423-426.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/13670069000040030801
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1999Phoneme awareness in children: A function of sonority. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH. 28:245-260.Full Text via DOI: 10.1023/A:1023254114696 Web of Science: 000079725100003
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1998Phonological Assessment and Treatment of Bilingual Speakers. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY. 7:49-60.Full Text via DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0702.49
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1997Effects of vowel height and place of articulation in interlanguage final stop devoicing. IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 35:115-125.Web of Science: A1997XF72900003
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1997Feature enhancement and phonological acquisition. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 11:153-172.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699209708985188 Web of Science: A1997WK87900004
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1995Phonological Selectivity in the First Fifty Words of a Bilingual Child. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH. 38:189-202.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/002383099503800204
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1994Extreme regularity in phonological disorder: A case study. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 8:127-139.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699209408985301
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1993Phonological Disorders in Children. TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS. 13:79-81.Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199308000-00010
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1991Systematic sound preference in phonological disorders: A case study. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS. 24:79-87.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0021-9924(91)90012-8
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1988Developing a phonological system: A case study. CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING & THERAPY. 4:142-153.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/026565908800400202
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1988Phonotactic restrictions in disordered child phonology: A case study. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 2:1-16.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699208808985240
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1988Processes and intelligibility in disordered phonology. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 2:329-345.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699208808985264
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Book
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2019Introduction. Ed. 8.
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2019Preface. Ed. 8.
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2018Phonological disorders in children: Theory, research and practiceFull Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780429435898
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2018
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Book Chapter
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2016Vowel epenthesis in the acquisition of English /s/-clusters by Turkish speakers. 3-20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/slcs.175.01yav
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2015PRODUCTION OF VOICELESS STOPS IN EARLY SEQUENTIAL SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS. 242-263.Web of Science: 000348585800013
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2015
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2014What guides children’s acquisition of #sC clusters?: A cross-linguistic account. 115-132.Full Text via DOI: 10.1075/lald.56.11yav
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2010Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish. 48-62.Web of Science: 000305294200004
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200610. Phonological Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish. 233-262.Full Text via DOI: 10.21832/9781853598906-012
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2006
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2002Voice onset time patterns in bilingual phonological development. 341-349.Web of Science: 000177113600027
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Editorial Material
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1992Phonological disorders in children: Theory, research and practice. CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING & THERAPY. 94-96.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/026565909200800107
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Other Scholarly Work
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2010Special Issue: Sonority and the cross-linguistic acquisition of vertical bar s vertical bar clusters in children with phonological disorders. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 239-241.Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200903362927 Web of Science: 000274856000007
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Thesis Or Dissertation
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Borrowing and Its Implications for Turkish Phonology. 2093A-2093A.
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Almalki, Hussain, Acoustic Investigation of Production of Clusters by Saudi Second Language Learners of English 2014
- Byers, Emily, Reduced vowel production in American English among Spanish-English bilinguals 2012
- Drozd, Olena, Sonority and its role in the acquisition of complex coda clusters by Spanish speakers learning English as a second language 2003
- Core, Cynthia Williams, Feature geometry, underspecification and child substitutions 1997
Contact
full name
- Mehmet Yavas
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