“…Both within languages and cross-linguistically, unmarked syllables tend to outnumber marked syllables (Blevins, 1995;Greenberg, 1978). Further, empirical studies of both language acquisition and language loss have also revealed that errors tend to concentrate on marked sequences (e.g., Bastiaanse, Gilbers, & van der Linde, 1994;Béland, Caplan, & Nespoulous, 1990;Buchwald, 2009;Buckingham, 1986;Christman, 1994;Ohala, 1999;Romani & Calabrese, 1998;Romani, Galluzzi, Bureca, & Olson, 2011). In addition, recognition has been reported to be more accurate for unmarked than marked syllables in experimental conditions hindering perception (e.g., by introducing of noise; Berent et al, 2008), although sonority does not account for all differences that were related to perceptual change (Davidson, 2011;Davidson & Shaw, 2012), indicating that sonority is one factor affecting sound structure processing.…”