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Gradual Vowel Epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic
Languages, 2021 In this paper, vowel epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic is analysed as a process of gradual structural build-up. Harmonic Serialism, a derivational framework of Optimality Theory, provides the theoretical foundation to illustrate the arguments.
Faisal M. Al-Mohanna
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Against a regular epenthesis rule for Hmong-Mien
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2018 *mbl-/*mbr- (Ratliff 2010) and *m.l(ɣ)-/*m.r(ɣ)- (Ostapirat 2016) have been proposed as reconstructions for correspondence sets that include NCL-, CL-, N-, and C- onsets across the Hmong-Mien family.
Martha Ratliff
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Epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 This paper aims to offer an extra-phonological analysis for a purely phoneticphonological phenomenon: epenthetic glides in Taqbaylit. In this language, both epenthetic glides [j] and [w] may appear in specific contexts and are usually considered a hiatus-
Amazigh Bedar +2 more
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Phonotactic Constraints on Tri-Syllabic Loanwords Containing Three-Consonant Sequences: An Optimality Account [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This paper examined the constraints on tri-syllabic loanwords in Persian, which contained three-consonant sequences in the underlying representation, within an optimality-theoretic account.
Hakimeh Fanoodi +2 more
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A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho
Glossa, 2019 In the Algonquian language Arapaho, epenthetic vowels only show up if they can attract an underlying floating high tone. I argue that this co-dependency of tone and epenthesis should not be analysed as tone-triggered epenthesis (which has been claimed ...
Daniel Gleim
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Inter-consonantal intervals in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic: Accounting for variable epenthesis
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 This paper reports on an acoustic investigation of inter-consonantal intervals in plosive sequences in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic (TLA). TLA permits a wide range of two, three, and four-consonant strings within and across word boundaries.
Abdurraouf Shitaw +2 more
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Sound Correspondences of Modern Standard Arabic Moroccan Arabic and Najdi Arabic
Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization, 2020 This paper studies the process of sound correspondences that occur in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Moroccan Arabic (MAR), and Najdi Arabic (NAR). It attempts to find answers for the following questions: a) What are the identical word pairs, words ...
Darsita Suparno +3 more
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Funktsionirovanie fonemy j v dialektach komi-zyrjanskogo jazyka [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The Proto-Permic phoneme *j has retained its phonemicity in all dialects of the Komi language. It may, however, be subject to phonetic alterations caused by syncope, apocope, prothesis, epenthesis or assimilation.
Galina Nekrasova
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Epenthetic vowel production of unfamiliar medial consonant clusters by Japanese speakers
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 Existing nativized loanword studies have traditionally suggested that there are three epenthetic vowels in Japanese, which reflect both phonotactic restrictions and articulatory properties of certain consonant-vowel sequences in the language.
Elizabeth Hume +2 more
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Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 This article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of Sistani Persian spoken in Iranian Sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes.
Farideh Okati +3 more
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