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Lexicon and Word Formation in Indonesian Bajo [PDF]
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.
Nuraini, C. (Chandra)
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]
This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew +2 more
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Introduction: Gemination is the division of a dental follicle that results in a tooth with two crowns, where the number of teeth in the arch does not vary.
Sair Andrés Miquet-Vega +1 more
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The Interaction of Stress, syllable Structure, and Gemination in Jordanian Arabic (JA)
The purpose of this study is to show that certain cases of heteromorphemic gemination can be better explained through showing their relatedness to syllable structure and stress (cf. McCarthy (1979) and (1986)).
Al-Tamari, Emad
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Lexical Effects in Perception of Tamil Geminates [PDF]
Lexical status effects are a phenomenon in which listeners use their prior lexical knowledge of a language to identify ambiguous speech sounds in a word based on its word or nonword status.
Raju, Vasudha
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Hajek, John +3 more
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]
Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]
Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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