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Epenthesis in Urdu

, 2021
The motivation of this research is epenthesis, an important Urdu phonological phenomenon. Presently, this work deals with the phonological rules for understanding the role of epenthesis and re-syllabification in Urdu content words, at larger scale, in ...
Mahmood, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Asim, Farooq, Mahwish   +1 more
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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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The Behaviour of the Schwa in the Saoura Spoken Arabic: schwa epenthesis and deletion

Traduction et Langues, 2020
In the present study, we argue in favour of adopting a moraic approach to the syllable to describe and explain phenomena in prosodic phonology. We indicate that the implementation of the mora (Hyman, 1985) in the Saoura Spoken Arabic (henceforth SSA ...
Lahcene Benyagoub, Bachir Bouahania
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The acquisition of L2 English complex onsets by L1 Farsi speakers

Laboratory Phonology
Much previous work has shown that sibilant-initial complex onsets (SC onsets) differ in their typological, phonological, articulatory, and acquisitional properties from other onsets.
Connor Mayer, Noah Khaloo
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
This paper discusses word-initial (sibilant + consonant) sequences that may or may not be preceded by a vowel in Brazilian Portuguese, as, for example, in escola [isˈkɔlə] ~ [ˈskɔlə] ‘school’ or Skype [isˈkajpi] ~ [ˈskajpi].
Matheus Freitas, Thaïs Cristófaro Silva   +1 more
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Lexicon and word formation in Indonesian Bajo

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2010
This paper1 deals with the phonology and the lexicology of the Indonesian Bajo language and more specifically with the dialect or variant that can be heard all around the Flores Sea in Kangean, South-East Sulawesi, Sumbawa, and Flores.
Chandra Nuraini
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Central, epenthetic, unmarked vowels and schwas : a brief outline of some essential differences [PDF]

Linguística, 2010
In this study, we examine the nature and content of some phonetic/phonological designations to refer to central vowels. Bearing in mind that epenthetic vowels and unmarked vowels are not always central vowels, we will argue in favour of a thorough ...
João Veloso
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The Perceptual Dimensions of Sonority-Driven Epenthesis

, 2014
Vowel epenthesis often appears to preferentially target consonant clusters with rising sonority. One explanation for this is perceptual faithfulness (Fleischhacker, 2002; Steriade, 2006): rising sonority clusters are more susceptible to epenthesis ...
Fullwood, Michelle Alison
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Vocali epentetiche in Lunigiana

Géolinguistique, 2013
In this work I tackle the description of the phonological process known as epenthesis in two geographically-related dialects spoken in Carrara (MS) and Pontremoli (MS).
Edoardo Cavirani
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OCP Effects in Catalan Cliticization

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002
In Catalan, sequences of sibilants are never pronounced as such. In most contexts all varieties coincide in the «strategies» used to avoid these sequences, namely epenthesis or deletion.
Eulàlia Bonet, Maria-Rosa Lloret
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