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Bruce Derwing has published numerous papers on psycholinguistic studies of children’s syllable structure and the relations between spelling and phonology.

University of Alberta
Dept of Linguistics
Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2E7
E-mail: blde@ualberta.ca
Phone: (403) 492-5698
Fax: (403) 492-0806

Publication:

• Priestly , T.M.S. & B.L. Derwing (with B. Brière)(in press). Pronunciation rules for Russian: A systematic approach for converting Russian spelling to sound. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers. (126 pp.)
  Scheduled to release May 30, 2005, 3 days from today.
• Derwing, B.L. (1992). Orthographic aspects of linguistic competence. In P. Downing, S. Lima & M. Noonan (Eds.), The linguistics of literacy, pp. 193-210. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Derwing, B.L., M.L. Smith & G.L. Wiebe (1994). On the role of spelling in morpheme recognition: Experimental studies with children and adults. In L. Feldman (Ed.), Morphological aspects of language processing, pp. 3-27. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Myers, J.D, Derwing, B,L & Libben, G. (2004). The effect of priming direction on reading Chinese compounds. Mental Lexicon Working Papers, 1, 71-86.
• Derwing, B.L. (1997). Testing phonological universals in the laboratory. In P.M. Bertinetto, L. Gaeta, G. Jetchev & D. Michaels (Eds.), Certamen Phonologicum III (Papers from the Third Cortona Phonology Meeting, April, 1996), pp. 45-65. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier.
• Yoon, Y.B. & B.L. Derwing (2001). A language without a rhyme: Syllable structure experiments in Korean. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 46(3/4), 187-237.
• Derwing, B.L.(1992). A ‘pause-break’ task for eliciting syllable boundary judgements from literate and illiterate speakers: Preliminary results for five diverse languages. Language and Speech, 35, 219-236.
• Derwing, B.L., T.M. Nearey & M.L. Dow (1986). On the phoneme as the unit of the ’second articulation.’ Phonology Yearbook, 3, 45-69.
• Derwing, B.L. & T.M. Nearey (1995). On the status of the segment in four typologically diverse languages: Results from global sound similarity judgments. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 2, pp. 598-601. Stockholm: KTH and Stockholm U.
• Derwing, B.L., T.M. Nearey, R.E. Beinert & T.E. Bendrien (1992). On the role of the segment in speech processing by human listeners: Evidence from speech perception and from global sound similarity judgments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 92), Vol. 1, pp. 289-292. Edmonton: University of Alberta.
• Derwing, B.L. & T.M. Nearey (1991). The ‘vowel-stickiness’ phenomenon: Three experimental sources of evidence. In Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 2, pp. 210-213. Aix-en-Provence, France: ICPhS.
• Derwing, B.L., M.L. Dow & T.M. Nearey (1989). Experimenting with syllable structure. In J. Powers & K. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL ‘88), pp. 83-94. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University.
• Schirmeier, M., B.L. Derwing & G. Libben (2003, Aug). Some psycholinguistic tests for morpheme awareness: Root morpheme salience in derived German verbs in ver- (with M. Schirmeier, presenter; & G. Libben). Thirtieth LACUS Forum, University of Victoria.
• Derwing, B.L. & Y.B. Yoon (1999, Aug). The effect of orthographic knowledge on syllable segmentation: A cross-linguistic study (with Y.B. Yoon). 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, 2 Aug.

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