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The Syllabification of High Vowels in the Kerinci Language: An Autosegmental Phonological Analysis
The aim of this article is to explain the syllabification of high vowels /i/ and /u/ at the nucleus position in the Kerinci language. In this language, the high vowels /i/ and /u/ at the nucleus position will undergo changes - for example, /i/, /u/, /is/ and /us/ will be realized as [aj], [aw], [ajh] and [awh].
Nur Farahkhanna Mohd Rusli +1 more
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This reply to Natalja Kuznetsova highlights many questionable interpretations and outcomes, ten serious errors and five minor inaccuracies in her polemical paper “Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae” (2018).
Külli Prillop
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In the Echoes of Guarani: Exploring the Intonation of Statements in Paraguayan Spanish
This explorative study examines intonation contours in neutral and non-neutral statements of Paraguayan Spanish, a variety shaped by extensive contact with Guarani, a co-official language of Paraguay.
Andrea Pešková
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Le vivaro-alpin : progrès d’une définition
This paper offers to review the linguistic characteristics of the Vivaro-Alpine, northern Occitan dialect which stretches from the Alps to the eastern foothills of the Massif Central.
Quentin Garnier
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DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS IN PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY
This article investigates the phenomenon of partial productivity within a phonological system, focusing on the alternation of mid vowels [ɔ] and [ɛ] with [i] in specific morphological contexts. Traditionally regarded as a historical remnant with limited
Roman CHEPYSHKO, Mykola PROHOROV
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Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani
It has been observed that tonal phenomena occur in quite a few Indo-Aryan languages in the northwestern corner of the South-Asian subcontinent. This paper presents a study of the tone system of one of these languages, Kalam Kohistani.
Joan L.G. Baart
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Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English
In Autosegmental-Metrical models of intonational phonology, different types of pitch accents, phrase accents, and boundary tones concatenate to create a set of phonologically distinct phrase-final nuclear tunes.
Jennifer Cole +3 more
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La organización de los rasgos fonológicos en la fonología actual
Since the seminal work by Jakobson, who proposed a set of unorganized binary features that could contrast between phonemes, recent research in phonology has dealt with the task of characterizing the units of speech.
Pilar Prieto
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Bondu-so vowel harmony: A descriptive analysis with theoretical implications
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the [ATR] vowel harmony system of Bondu-so (Dogon, Mali), a previously undocumented language. Data come from fieldwork and have not yet been published.
Abie Hantgan, Stuart Davis
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This paper provides robust empirical evidence for floating tones in Ga, a Kwa language of Ghana. As will be shown, floating tones are crucial to an analysis of verbal tense/aspect/mood distinctions.
Mary Paster
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