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Pronunciation and Spelling Accuracy in English Words with Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners

open access: yesLanguages
Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets.
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh   +2 more
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Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of syllabic and sub-syllabic processing in Cantonese spoken word production by using the picture-word interference task.
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong   +3 more
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Segmental duration as a cue to syllable boundaries in Czech

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2017
The aim of the study is to establish whether the acoustic signal contains cues to the syllabification of words that are perceptually relevant, as suggested by previous research.
Pavel Šturm
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German glide formation functionally viewed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j.
Hamann, Silke
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Analysis of the Word-Initial Segment with Reference to Lemmatising Zulu Nasal Nouns

open access: yesLexikos, 2012
<p>The process of lemmatising nasal nouns in the Zulu lexicon is problematic. The traditional method is to lemmatise a Zulu lexical noun by etymological noun-stem. This practice creates difficulties in harmonising lexical nouns with their syntactic
M.H. Mpungose
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie   +66 more
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Syllable-, Bigram-, and Morphology-Driven Pseudoword Generation in Greek

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Pseudowords are essential in (psycho)linguistic research, offering a way to study language without meaning interference. Various methods for creating pseudowords exist, but each has its limitations.
Kosmas Kosmidis   +2 more
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Reviewing the musical component of rhythm of "poetry" and the factors influencing it [PDF]

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2017
‘Rhythm’ is the most important component in the music of poetry. In this paper, in addition to defining rhythm, we have studied relative components which have most influence on the music of poetry.
Ma’sumeh Ma’dankan   +2 more
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Branchingness constraints on heads and dependents in Munster Irish stress

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
This paper readdresses the bounds between rhythm and constituency. It argues in favor of an arboreal representation of the metrical grid in which both metrical prominence, that is, grid marks, and prosodic categories are conflated into the same dimension
Ben Hermans, Francesc Torres-Tamarit
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