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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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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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Phonology [PDF]

In Ruslan Mitkov (ed) (2002). Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, 2002
Phonology is the systematic study of the sounds used in language, their internal structure, and their composition into syllables, words and phrases. Computational phonology is the application of formal and computational techniques to the representation and processing of phonological information. This chapter will present the fundamentals of descriptive
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SpellGCN: Incorporating Phonological and Visual Similarities into Language Models for Chinese Spelling Check [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Chinese Spelling Check (CSC) is a task to detect and correct spelling errors in Chinese natural language. Existing methods have made attempts to incorporate the similarity knowledge between Chinese characters. However, they take the similarity knowledge as either an external input resource or just heuristic rules.
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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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Transducers from Rewrite Rules with Backreferences [PDF]

arXiv, 1999
Context sensitive rewrite rules have been widely used in several areas of natural language processing, including syntax, morphology, phonology and speech processing. Kaplan and Kay, Karttunen, and Mohri & Sproat have given various algorithms to compile such rewrite rules into finite-state transducers.
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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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