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Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 In their presentation of three-dimensional phonology, Halle and Vergnaud [1980, 1981] propose that Hausa singular nouns are morphologically complex like the plural forms, composed of a stem plus a singular suffix.
Donald A. Burquest
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Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications
LingBaW, 2023 This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first
Jackson Wolf
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A phonological solution to allomorphy in Georgian nominal inflection
Glossa, 2022 Georgian features three patterns of nominal inflection, which are dependent on the structure of the stem. The stem can be consonantal, vocalic truncating, and vocalic non-truncating, with the consequences for the shape of the inflectional suffixes ...
Marcin Fortuna
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The Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Intonational Phonology [PDF]
, 2022 Contains fulltext : 252799.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Akan vowel harmony the word structure conditions and the floating vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Clements, in an account of Akan vowel harmony [1981b], has a separate autosegmental tier for the harmonic feature category [Advanced Tongue Root]. He claims to demonstrate the superiority of his autosegmental framework over the segmental framework ...
John M. Stewart
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Long-distance phonological processes as tier-based strictly local functions
Glossa, 2021 Whether we analyze phonological processes using a system of rules or constraints, the resulting map from underlying representations to surface pronunciations can be characterized as a function. Viewing processes as mathematical objects in this way allows
Jane Chandlee +2 more
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Vowel Deletion and Insertion in Úwù
Journal of Language and Education, 2017 Úwù is one of the many endangered languages in Nigeria.The number of its fluent speakers is believed to be less than 2000.The language is spoken in a small community known as Àyèré in Ìjùmú Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi state.
Allison Idris Olawale
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 Focusing the palatalization of coronal stops, a study with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese, in normal and deviant process, makes clear a significant influence of the linguistic context in the behavior of consonantal segments, causing phonetic ...
Carmen Lúcia Matzenauer-Hernandorena
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مجلة الآداب, 2018 This paper is concerned with a generic feature geometry based model for phonological disorder description of hypernasality routed in the voice profiles of an Iraqi child (aged 7 years) with a cleft palate. It primarily explores the applicability of this
محمد احمد عبد الستار السامر
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