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An OT Approach to Loanword Adaptation in Cairene Arabic
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004 Cairene Arabic (CA) elects epenthesis as a strategy for adapting loanwords. This paper tackles the reasons why this occurs as well as the different aspects of vowel epenthesis within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT)(McCarthy and Prince, 1993 ...
Galal, Mohamed
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مجلة العلوم التربوية والدراسات الإنسانية سلسلة الآداب والعلوم التربوية والإنسانية والتطبيقيةThis study examines vowel epenthesis (VE) in monosyllabic words in Quranic Arabic (QA), Yemeni Dialects (YD), and Hijazi Dialects (HD) using Optimality Theory (OT).
Nadhim Aldubai
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Phonological and morphological influences on vowel hiatus resolution in Rutooro
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 When the morphology of a language creates instances of successive vowels, these cases of vowel hiatus are often resolved or repaired. This paper presents a wide variety of instances where vowel hiatus is created within verbs in Rutooro, a Ugandan Bantu ...
Bickmore, Lee
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Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015 It is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their ...
Cristina Bălan
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Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions: the case of Arabic epenthesis
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesVowel epenthesis and stress patterns in Arabic dialects vary widely; understanding their interaction is crucial for phonological theory. This study investigates how different Arabic dialects handle medial CCC clusters and how stress assignment interacts ...
Abdullah Alfaifi
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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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Initial consonant cluster epenthesis in Turkish and its implications to EFL
International Journal of Educational Spectrum, 2021 The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position of borrowed vocabulary requires the insertion of an epenthetic high vowel.
Namık Ülkersoy +2 more
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Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish
Glossa, 2020 Central Yiddish (CY) has inserted schwas that occur between long vowels or diphthongs and certain coda consonants. In the most restrictive varieties, schwas are inserted only between long high vowels or diphthongs and uvular or rhotic codas (as in /biːχ/
Marc Garellek
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2011 The present research is an investigation of the role played by pronunciation instruction in the discrimination of English CVC and CVCV syllabic patterns in word-final position.
Rosane Silveira
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Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2012 The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within ...
Lori Repetti
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