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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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Rule Interaction Conversion Operations [PDF]
, 2019 Different types of interactions between pairs of phonological rules can be converted into one another using three formal operations that we discuss in this article.
Baković, Eric, Blumenfeld, Lev
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Non-Rhoticity in English [PDF]
, 2007 Moreover, the paper demonstrates a way in which r-liaison might be incorporated in the synchronic grammar of non-rhotic accents. Simply put, r-liaison could be perceived as another instantiation of VSpread conspiracy, where vowels tend to spread their ...
Ostalski, Przemysław
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The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1 [PDF]
, 2015 The problem of opacity presents a challenge for generative phonology. This paper examines the process of Nasal Assimilation in Polish rendered opaque by the process of Vowel Deletion in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), which currently is a ...
Iwan, Karolina
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Computational Approaches to Exploring Persian-Accented English [PDF]
, 2015 Methods involving phonetic speech recognition are discussed for detecting Persian-accented English. These methods offer promise for both the identification and mitigation of L2 pronunciation errors. Pronunciation errors, both segmental and suprasegmental,
Miller, Corey
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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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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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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]
, 2019 We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
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