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Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
The paper analyses existing moraic conceptions of Estonian quantity. Main features of functional, generative and phonetically-instructed moraic accounts of Estonian are considered.
Natalia Kuznetsova
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Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics

Studies in African Linguistics, 1987
Swahili has two forms of inanimate pronominal clitics. One, like the relative pronouns, typically ends with /o/ and the other, like the subject agreement affixes, are never /o/ final.
Camillia N. Barrett-Keach
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Recent developments in phonology [PDF]

, 2012
Corno quase nenhuma outra disciplina lingüística, a fonologia passou por uma evolução turbulenta nas duas últimas décadas. Ao contrário da abordagem cöássica da Gramática Gerativa, que se concentrou na descrição de cadeias de segmentos fonológicos e de ...
Vater, Heinz
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Towards a model of phonological acquisition in government phonology [PDF]

, 1998
Child phonology shows some interesting and systematic differences from adult phonology. In child phonology, for example, vowel harmony and consonant harmony are common phonological effects (Ingram 1986).
Tolson, Lucy
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Morae in Estonian. A reply to Natalja Kuznetsova’s paper “Estonian word prosody on the Procrustean bed of morae”

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

Languages, 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
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Le vivaro-alpin : progrès d’une définition

Géolinguistique, 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
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DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS IN PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY

Науковий 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
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Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani

Linguistic 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
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Focus and tone [PDF]

, 2008
Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category focus is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies.
Hartmann, Katharina, Katharina Hartmann
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