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Visual sonority in Brazilian Sign Language literature
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2017 The idea of sonority in sign languages was treated by Perlmutter (1992) as perceptibility, a property of a segment that uses movement rather than one in which the hands stay in the same position. Sandler (1993) states that the visual salience of movement
Marilyn Mafra Klamt
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Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2019 The paper argues that sonority on the one hand and other segmental properties such as place of articulation (labiality etc.) and laryngeal properties (voicing etc.) on the other hand are different in kind and must therefore not be represented alike: implementations on a par e.g. as features ([±voc], [±son], [±lab], [±voice] etc.) are misled.
Scheer, Tobias
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The Perception of Novel Consonant Clusters: A Comparison of Salience and Sonority [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: In human language, speech sound units, referred to as segments, are rigidly ordered. Certain orderings are typologically common, while others are typologically rare.
Marina Oganyan +4 more
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Evidence for Sonority-Driven Stress [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 We argue that there is no adequate evidence for ‘sonority-driven stress’, building on Shih (2018a,b), and disagreeing with Kenstowicz (1997), de Lacy (2002a, 2004, 2006), and others.
Shu-hao Shih, Paul de Lacy
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Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory
Open Linguistics, 2016 This article presents an argument for the idea that consonants of high sonority are preferred over low-sonority consonants between vowels (Uffmann 2007).
Staroverov Peter
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Sonority as a Phonological Cue in Early Perception of Written Syllables in French [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Many studies focused on the letter and sound co-occurrences to account for the well-documented syllable-based effects in French in visual (pseudo)word processing.
Méghane Tossonian +5 more
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, 2022 R code for preparation of the Segholate corpus study in Albert, Aviad. 2022. “Sonority in Modern Hebrew”.
Aviad Albert
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Languages put restrictions on large sonority distances [PDF]
, 2023 An underlying assumption in terms of sonority distances is that clusters with large sonority distances are more common than those with small distances, as captured in the unmarked status of large sonority distances and formalized in terms of sonority ...
Ruihua Yin, Yin, Ruihua
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, 2015 Syllables play an important role in children’s early language acquisition, and children appear to rely on clear syllabic structures as a key to word acquisition (Vihman 1996; Oller 2000).
Boeg Thomsen, Ditte +3 more
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Bavarian German r-Flapping: Evidence for a dialect-specific sonority hierarchy
Glossa, 2019 In certain varieties of Bavarian German, where both liquids vocalize in the syllable coda, word-final sequences of /ʀl/ are realized with a flapped r as the onset to a syllable with nuclear syllabic l ([l̩]).
Erin Noelliste
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