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Rewrite rule grammars with multitape automata

Journal of Language Modelling, 2017
The majority of computational implementations of phonological and morphophonological alternations rely on composing together individual finite state transducers that represent sound changes.
Mans Hulden
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Some Phonological Processes in an Akan Linguistic Game

Linguistik Online, 2015
This paper examines some phonological processes observed in the Pig Latin; a linguistic game played in Akan, a Niger-Congo (Kwa) language. The Akan Pig Latin (henceforth APL), which is popularly known as Megesege is usually played among Akan youth.
Kwasi Adomako
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Disambiguation of neutralized forms in two Croatian varieties

Linguistica, 1994
A type of northwestern Croatian pronunciation, also known as the Kajkavian accent, was compared with the standard Croatian pronunciation with respect to the strategies used to disambiguate neutralized final obstruents.
Višnja Josipović, Dora Maček
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The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016
Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization.  When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes palatal (uku-lum-a → uku-luɲ-w-a).
Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver
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Esquisse de la tonologie synchronique de Wemɛgbe dialecte Gbe du sud-Benin

Studies in African Linguistics, 2004
In this paper I show that Wemegbe, a language spoken in southern Benin, has two underlying tones, H and L, and that the surface tones M, LH and HL are derived by phonological rules.
Flavien Gbeto
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Morphophonological Nature of Mari Accentuation as Viewed from the Uralic Perspective; pp. 184-207 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2013
This paper analyses the system of accentuation in Mari. Based on the data collected in the village of Staryj Torjal, the author argues that Mari stress cannot be described only on the phonetic/phonological level.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Downstep in Tiriki

Linguistic Discovery, 2011
In this paper, we present an analysis of the tone system of Tiriki, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya and previously undescribed in the linguistic literature.
Mary Paster, Yuni Kim
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Korean "Tense" Consonants as Geminates

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
In this paper, I argue that Korean "tense" consonants are geminates which occupy two C positions in a CV-tier. This argument is supported by phonetic evidence such as a longer closure duration of the tense consonants and phonological evidence such as the
Choi, Dong-Ik
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On the lack of palatalization before –end- in the plural of Icelandic nominalized present participles such as Leikandi.

Linguistica, 1980
This paper discusses the velar pronunciation of the root final segments in the plural of the Icelandic nominalized present participles, e.g. in leikend-, the plural of leikandi "actor".
Janez Orešnik
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On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account

Linguistik Online, 2004
Based on where and how phonological rules apply, studies in Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986; Kiparsky 1985; Pulleyblank 1986; etc.) distinguish between two levels in the phonology; namely, lexical and post-lexical.
Charles Ofosu Marfo
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