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Greek wh-Questions and the Phonology of Intonation [PDF]
, 2009 The intonation of Greek wh-questions consists of a rise-fall followed by a low plateau and a final rise. Using acoustic data, we show (i) that the exact contour shape depends on the length of the question, and (ii) that the position of the first peak and
Ladd, D. Robert +4 more
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Prosodic location modulates listeners' perception of novel German sounds
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Interaction of sounds on the melodic tier (segments) with prosodic and phonotactic structure (syllabic context) in cross-language perception is not explicitly addressed by models of second language phonology (e.g., Perceptual Assimilation Model: Best ...
Isabelle Darcy, John H. G. Scott
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La rappresentazione delle opposizioni di sonorità
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2023 This paper deals with aspects of the phonological representation of voicing contrasts, which is a major topic segmental phonology, also because it is closely related to the theory of phonological primitives and of the relationship between phonetics and ...
Laura Bafile
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Coping with phonological assimilation in speech perception: Evidence for early compensation [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 2003 The pronunciation of the same word may vary considerably as a consequence of its context. The Dutch word tuin (English, garden) may be pronounced tuim if followed by bank (English, bench), but not if followed by stoel (English, chair). In a series of four experiments, we examined how Dutch listeners cope with this context sensitivity in their native ...
Mitterer, Holger, Blomert, Leo
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023 The article provides a descriptive account of the phonology of Kussummiya spoken in southwest Ethiopia. It is basically a qualitative study in that linguistic data are collected from native speakers by using elicitation technique. The collected data are
Wondwosen Tesfaye
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Arabic loan phonology: the assimilation of English lexical items
Linguistics, 1980 exaly +2 more sources
Nasal place assimilation trades off inferrability of both target and trigger words
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 In English, nasal place assimilation occurs across word boundaries, such as ten bucks pronounced as te[m] bucks. Assimilation can be viewed as a reduction or loss of the assimilation target’s place cue (/n/ in ten), and simultaneously as an enhancement ...
Elizabeth Hume +3 more
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On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account
Linguistik Online, 2004 Based on where and how phonological rules apply, studies in Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986; Kiparsky 1985; Pulleyblank 1986; etc.) distinguish between two levels in the phonology; namely, lexical and post-lexical.
Charles Ofosu Marfo
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A Phonological Study of Mosuli Dialect Assimilation
Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities, 2022 Assimilation is a phonological process which refers to the change of one sound by another sound under the influence of a third sound. The main reason behind this change is the speaker's tendency to economize the muscular effort or make ease of articulation or both. This study aims at finding out the assimilation patterns in Mosuli dialect( ) and divide
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Aspects of the phonology of Sukwa: an optimality theoretic analysis [PDF]
, 2011 Phonological studies of Bantu languages have continued to be an area of investigation for many scholars over the years. These studies have discussed the language's sound patterns syllable structures, phonological processes and suprasegmental features and
Mtenje, Atikonda Akuzike
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