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Lexicon and Word Formation in Indonesian Bajo [PDF]
, 2010 This paper1 deals with the phonology and the lexicology of the Indonesian Bajo language and more specifically with the dialect or variant that can be heard all around the Flores Sea in Kangean, South-East Sulawesi, Sumbawa, and Flores.
Nuraini, C. (Chandra)
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Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in Italian [PDF]
, 2002 This paper is a preliminary phonetic exploration of aspects of the well-known Italian sandhi phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (henceforth RS), which involves the gemination of word-initial consonants under certain conditions, eg dei [k]ani ‘some ...
Absalom, Matthew +2 more
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Gemination Strategies in L1 And English Pronunciation of Polish Learners [PDF]
, 2014 Polish is a language where true geminates appear and the occurrence of a double consonant letter in spelling corresponds with double or at least prolonged consonant articulation regardless of the morphological structure of the word.
Andrzej Porzuczek +29 more
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Initial lenition and strength alternations (v/b) in Neapolitan: A laryngeal Branchingness condition
Glossa, 2020 In Central and Southern Italian dialects, the word-initial position plays host to a large number of strength-based alternations involving voiced stops. In this paper we look specifically at the v/b pair in Neapolitan.
Michela Russo, Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]
, 2002 This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew +2 more
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Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration play? [PDF]
, 2004 This paper compares the acoustic phonetic appearance of voiced & voiceless geminate stops in Sienese Italian. In our spontaneous speech data voiceless geminate stops are frequently preaspirated, which is an extremely rare phenomenon cross-linguistically.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]
, 2010 Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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, 2021 This paper proposes a new distribution of the Lycian consonants, which is less uniform than described hitherto. Indeed, whereas the word-initial and intervocalic positions allow either the simplex or the geminate consonant, only the simplex is attested for every consonant after a nasal and before a sonorant, and the geminate generally appears for most ...
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Long consonants versus geminate consonants in Arabic [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1986 If a phonetic distinction can be made between long consonants and geminate consonants (a cluster of two like consonants), it should be cued by durational differences in the absence of a distinctive release. Arabic provides a means for comparing these types of consonants since it has phonemically distinct long consonants word initially and medially, and
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