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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur (ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous research, we present new data and highlight its relevance for phonological theory.
Connor Mayer +2 more
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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting.
Ryan Bennett +3 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Guébie is an Eastern Kru language spoken by about 7000 people in the Gagnoa prefecture of Côte d’Ivoire. This paper provides an overview of the phonology of Guébie, including the complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts, CVCV/CCV alternations ...
Hannah Sande
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Some Segmental Features of American English and Upper-Egyptian Arabic: A Study in Contrastive Phonology [PDF]
Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ, 2021 The term 'segment' is usually used in phonology to refer to the smallest perceptible unit. The main objective of this study is toprovide a phonological analysis of some of the segmental features of American English and Upper-Egyptian Arabic.
Sara Moustafa Mahmoud
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Modeling Sonority in Terms of Pitch Intelligibility With the Nucleus Attraction Principle
Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Sonority is a fundamental notion in phonetics and phonology, central to many descriptions of the syllable and various useful predictions in phonotactics. Although widely accepted, sonority lacks a clear basis in speech articulation or perception, given that traditional formal principles in linguistic theory are often exclusively based on ...
Aviad Albert, Bruno Nicenboim
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‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 119, Issue 1, Page 1-39, March 2021., 2021 Abstract A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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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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Stress-epenthesis interactions
, 2001 In this paper I argue that the correspondence approach to stress-epenthesis interactions provides a better match with the data than the multi-level approach. The general argument of the paper is that disruption of normal stress patterns by epenthetic material is caused by one of two factors: avoidance of epenthetic material in prominent positions, and ...
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Chinese Sign Language Recognition Based on DTW‐Distance‐Mapping Features
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020 Sign language is an important communication tool between the deaf and the external world. As the number of the Chinese deaf accounts for 15% of the world, it is highly urgent to develop a Chinese sign language recognition (CSLR) system. Recently, a novel phonology‐ and radical‐coded CSL, taking advantages of a limited and constant number of coded ...
Juan Cheng +6 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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