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The Syllabification of High Vowels in the Kerinci Language: An Autosegmental Phonological Analysis

open access: yesJurnal Bahasa, 2022
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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Morae in Estonian. A reply to Natalja Kuznetsova’s paper “Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae”

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

In the Echoes of Guarani: Exploring the Intonation of Statements in Paraguayan Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Le vivaro-alpin : progrès d’une définition

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS IN PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY

open access: yesНауковий вісник Чернівецького університету. Германська філологія
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
doaj   +1 more source

Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2004
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
doaj   +1 more source

Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2023
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
doaj   +2 more sources

La organización de los rasgos fonológicos en la fonología actual

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1992
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
doaj   +1 more source

Bondu-so vowel harmony: A descriptive analysis with theoretical implications

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2012
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Floating tones in Ga

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2003
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
doaj   +3 more sources

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