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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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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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, 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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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
, 2007 The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Hajek, John +3 more
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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]
, 2010 Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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An Experimental Study of the Gemination in Arabic Language
Archives of Acoustics, 2017 In this paper, we report the results of an experimental study of the acoustic and articulatory features of the gemination in Modern Arabic language, pronounced by Algerian speakers.
Kamel FERRAT, Mhania GUERTI
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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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Proto-Dravidian Origins of the Kuṛux-Malto Past Stems
Bhasha, 2022 In the closely related Dravidian languages Kuṛux and Malto, the verbs have lexically determined past stems, formed from the verb bases with various suffixes such as -y, -c, -j, -s, -t, -ṭ and -ḍ.
Kobayashi, Masato
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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
, 2004 We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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