Yavas, Mehmet

Yavas, Mehmet
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Professor, English , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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yavasm@fiu.edu

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selected publications

Article
- 2018
  
  Patterns in German /?C/-cluster acquisition. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 32.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1469670 Web of Science: 000443853000002
- 2017
  
  Vowel reduction in word-final position by early and late Spanish-English bilinguals. PLOS ONE. 12.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175226 PMID: 28384234 Web of Science: 000399371900126
- 2016
  
  Durational 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
- 2015
  
  PRODUCTION OF VOICELESS STOPS IN EARLY SEQUENTIAL SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS. UNUSUAL PRODUCTIONS IN PHONOLOGY: UNIVERSALS AND LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS. 242-263.
  Web of Science: 000348585800013
- 2014
  
  Acquisition 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 PMID: 23713564 Web of Science: 000333035000005
- 2013
  
  What explains the reductions in /s/-clusters: Sonority or [continuant]?. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 27:394-403.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2013.767378 PMID: 23617795 Web of Science: 000319063400002
- 2011
  
  Patterns 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 PMID: 22106888 Web of Science: 000297270400012
- 2010
  
  Acquisition 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 PMID: 20144078 Web of Science: 000274856000002
- 2010
  
  Acquisition 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 PMID: 20144079 Web of Science: 000274856000003
- 2010
  
  Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish. COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IN TURKISH. 48-62.
  Web of Science: 000305294200004
- 2010
  
  Sonority 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 PMID: 20144077 Web of Science: 000274856000001
- 2008
  
  Sonority and cross-linguistic acquisition of initial s-clusters. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 22:421-441.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/02699200701875864 PMID: 18484283 Web of Science: 000256006200002
- 2001
  
  Phonemic awareness of coda consonants and sonority in bilingual children. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 15.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699200109167627 Web of Science: 000166857400008
- 1999
  
  Phoneme awareness in children: A function of sonority. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH. 28.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1023/A:1023254114696 Web of Science: 000079725100003
- 1998
  
  Phonological assessment and treatment of bilingual speakers. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY. 7.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0702.49 Web of Science: 000073586900006
- 1997
  
  Effects of vowel height and place of articulation in interlanguage final stop devoicing. IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING. 35.
  Web of Science: A1997XF72900003
- 1997
  
  Feature enhancement and phonological acquisition. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 11.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699209708985188 Web of Science: A1997WK87900004
- 1995
  
  Phonological selectivity in the first fifty words of a bilingual child. LANGUAGE AND SPEECH. 38.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/002383099503800204 Web of Science: A1995TR10000004
- 1994
  
  EXTREME REGULARITY IN PHONOLOGICAL DISORDER - A CASE-STUDY. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS. 8.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3109/02699209408985301 Web of Science: A1994NC32400003
Book
- 2019
  
  Introduction. Ed. 8.
- 2019
  
  Preface. Ed. 8.
- 2018
  
  Preface
Book Chapter
- 2015
  
  UNUSUAL PRODUCTIONS IN PHONOLOGY Universals and Language-Specific Considerations INTRODUCTION. UNUSUAL PRODUCTIONS IN PHONOLOGY: UNIVERSALS AND LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS. 1-9.
  Web of Science: 000348585800001
Editorial Material
- 2010
  
  Special 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 PMID: 20144083 Web of Science: 000274856000007

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

teaching activities

LIN5018-U01: Introduction to Linguistics Fall Term 2019

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Mehmet Yavas

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publication subject areas

Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Linguistics
Psychology
Rehabilitation
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