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The role of sonority in Blackfoot phonotactics*

, 2005
Contrary to appearance (e.g. nómohtsstsiinssoka anni iihtáísttsikaahkiaakio’pi ‘she singed me with the iron’), the phonotactics of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken in southern Alberta and northern Montana, are highly restrictive. In this paper, I
Elfner, Emily
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Italo‑Slavic convergences in the field of phonotactics [PDF]

, 2022
The subject of the article is the Italian influence on Croatian phonotactics. Selected issues concerning the distribution of consonants from the Čakavian dialect and na našu – the dialect of Croatian villages in Italy – are discussed in the ...
Sawicka, Irena
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Rapid generalization in phonotactic learning

Laboratory Phonology, 2017
Speakers judge novel strings to be better potential words of their language if those strings consist of sound sequences that are attested in the language.
Gillian Gallagher, Tal Linzen
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Effects of phonotactic predictability on sensitivity to phonetic detail

Laboratory Phonology, 2019
Japanese speakers systematically devoice or delete high vowels [i, u] between two voiceless consonants. Japanese listeners also report perceiving the same high vowels between consonant clusters even in the absence of a vocalic segment.
James Whang
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Toward a comprehensive framework for tonal analysis: Yangru tone in Southern Min

Open Linguistics
This study establishes a comprehensive framework for analyzing tone as an important but complex mechanism in East and Southeast Asian tonal languages.
Huang Yishan
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The relations between phonotactics and speech rhythm in Czech

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2019
The main objective of this study is to explore the relationships between the phonotactic structure of the Czech stress-group and rhythm of speech. Three most frequent consonantal-vocalic (CV) structures of Czech two-syllable stress-groups were selected ...
Eliška Churaňová
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So, my language bears foreign vocabulary

Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies
This article traces the incorporation of English words in the lexicon, phonology and morphology of the Silozi language spoken in the Zambezi Region. English is Namibia’s sole official language and is usually used alongside Silozi in different domains ...
Morgan Simataa Silume
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Statistical learning of phonotactics by children can be affected by another statistical learning task. [PDF]

Appl Psycholinguist, 2023
Richtsmeier PT, Goffman L.
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An unexpected gap in Gitksan consonant cluster phonotactics

, 2009
This short paper outlines the consonant cluster phonotactics of Giksan (Tsimshianic) by attempting a summary of the generalizations presented in Rigsby (1986).
Brown, Jason
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Phonological distances between Eurasian lects measured via Phonotacticon 1.0 reveal areal patterns

Linguistics
The present study measures the phonological distances between 335 spoken lects of Eurasia using Phonotacticon 1.0, a cross-linguistic database, and explores whether phonologically similar lects form areal patterns within Eurasia.
Joo Ian, Hsu Yu-Yin
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