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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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Vowel Epenthesis in Early Germanic Runic Inscriptions [PDF]
, 2015 A number of runic inscriptions from the entire Germanic area from between A.D. 200 and 800 exhibit non-etymological, epenthetic vowels, such as worahto for *worhto ‘did’.
Versloot, A.; id_orcid, Damsma, L.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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