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International Journal of Language Teaching and Education, 2019 The present study aims to adopt the Optimality Theory to investigate the strategies of pronouncing the final consonant clusters in English by a group of Vietnamese L1 speakers.
Thong Vi Nguyen
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“The Rain in Spain” Updated? An Elocution Drill for Efficiently Teaching English Consonant Clusters
, 2018 This small-scale longitudinal study investigates a technique for assisting English learners to achieve more native-like pronunciation of onset consonant clusters. Study participants were ESL students with L1s that lack onset clusters (Arabic and Mandarin
Omar A. Alkhonini, Douglas J. Wulf
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Al-Lisan: Jurnal BahasaBackground: The term "diagnosis" is used in this study to reflect the careful and systematic approach needed to investigate the phonological features of Gorontalo Language (GL).
Rahman Taufiqrianto Dako +2 more
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The Adaptation of French Consonant Clusters in Vietnamese Phonology: An OT Account
, 2017 The phenomenon of phonological adaptation arises due to the segmental, phonotactic, supra-segmental, and morpho-phonological restrictions of the borrowing language.
H. Nguyen, Hemanga Dutta
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Syllable structure in Old, Middle and Modern Persian: A contrastive analysis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists. In this paper we study the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old Persian (O.P) to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P).
Aliye Kord zaferanlu Kambuziya +1 more
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Sonority Sequencing Principle in Sabzevari Persian: A Constraint-Based Approach
Open Linguistics, 2019 This study sheds light on the relationship between the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) and syllable structure in Sabzevari, a Persian vernacular spoken in the Sabzevar area of Northeast Iran. Optimality Theory (OT), as a constraint-based approach, is
Alqahtani Mufleh Salem M.
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica, 2017 This paper presents the results of an investigation of subjective feelings related to the syllabification of Polish words written in orthographic form.
Daniel Śledziński
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Perception of illusory vowels by Persian speakers in several consonant clusters of French loanwords [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroduction Previous research has highlighted the challenge listeners face in distinguishing between legitimate and non-native consonant sequences, presenting potential perceptual illusions (Berent, et al., 2007; Dupoux, et al., 1999). Some researchers
Saghar Javidpour +2 more
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The Sonority Sequencing Principle and the Structure of Slovak Consonant Clusters
Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2021 The Sonority Sequencing Principle and the Structure of Slovak Consonant Clusters In line with the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), the centre of the syllable is the most sonorous sound and the sonority of the other segments in the syllable drops ...
Renáta Gregová
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, 2015 The present study was aimed at providing the English teachers across Iran with a good and fruitful method of teaching pronunciation. To this end, sixty female intermediate EFL learners were put in three different but equivalent groups of 20 based on the ...
Ruhollah Khanbeiki +1 more
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