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Dschang syllable structure [PDF]
, 1999 The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight
Bird, Steven
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Why computational models are better than verbal theories: the case of nonword repetition [PDF]
, 2014 Tests of nonword repetition (NWR) have often been used to examine children’s phonological knowledge and word learning abilities. However, theories of NWR primarily explain performance either in terms of phonological working memory or long-term knowledge,
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Rhythm in Korean verse, sico [PDF]
, 2015 Although rhythm in language and speech is elusive, the prosodic pattern in verse and the way language is aligned to music can reveal cross-linguistic differences in rhythm.
Jeon, Hae-Sung
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Il mito dell’isocronia moraica in giapponese: un’analisi quantitativa basata su corpora orali
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 Pike (1945) classified the world languages into two types of rhythmic/prosodic patterns: stress-timed and syllable-timed. According to this classification, stress-timed languages, like English and German, tend to have isochronous interstress intervals ...
Giuseppe Pappalardo
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Language-universal constraints on the segmentation of English [PDF]
, 2000 Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) [1] is a language-specific or language-universal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech.
Butterfield, S. +4 more
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]
, 2013 Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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Japanese and English name truncations
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 This paper looks into the structural properties of Japanese and English truncated names. Name truncation is considered to be a word-formation process and is analyzed from the perspective of Prosodic Morphology.
Andrei A. Avram
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Frontiers in Language SciencesIntroductionThe syllable frequency effect refers to that during the lexical decision task, words beginning with high-frequency syllables elicit slower responses than words beginning with low-frequency ones, indicating an inhibitory effect.
Seoyeon Kwon +3 more
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La syllabe et la découverte du sens dans l’énonciation : phonologie et langues en contact en FLE
Multilinguales, 2013 How can deviant utterances produce a significant speech? A learners’ corpus answers the question. Indeed, some metrical syllabic distribution seems to operate effectively in communication act, in spite of the atypical syntactic constructions, multiple ...
Maria‑Luisa Fernandez‑Echevarria
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]
, 2007 Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
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