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Stochastic time models of syllable structure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Drawing on phonology research within the generative linguistics tradition, stochastic methods, and notions from complex systems, we develop a modelling paradigm linking phonological structure, expressed in terms of syllables, to speech movement data ...
Jason A Shaw, Adamantios I Gafos
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Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2008 In traditional structuralist understanding, language is a system of signs i.e. an inseparable unity of content and expression. According to glossematic linguistic theory, the dichotomy of form and substance in the content has its parallel in the ...
Jakobsen Per
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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 of a syllable.
Bird, Steven
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Syllable structure universals and native language interference in second language perception and production: Positional asymmetry and perceptual links to accentedness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The present study investigated how syllable structure differences between the first Language (L1) and the second language (L2) affect L2 consonant perception and production at syllable-initial and syllable-final positions.
Bing eCheng, Yang eZhang
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Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]
PLoS 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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Phonotactics in the Turkish Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2022 The main purpose of this paper is to explore the phonotactic structure of the Turkish phonological system on the basis of an extensive Turkish linguistic corpus.
Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi
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Initial consonant cluster epenthesis in Turkish and its implications to EFL
International Journal of Educational Spectrum, 2021 The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position of borrowed vocabulary requires the insertion of an epenthetic high vowel.
Namık Ülkersoy +2 more
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Syllable Structure in Setswana Personal Names
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The study analyses the characteristics of syllables in personal names of the Setswana (Tswana) language (Sotho subgroup of the Bantu languages, Southern Africa).
Boikanyego Sebina +1 more
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Lithuanian Syllable: The Hierarchy of Syllable Constituents and Syllable Weight
Respectus Philologicus, 2022 The article aims to establish the hierarchy of Lithuanian syllable constituents and determine how syllables should be interpreted in terms of syllable weight. The empirical data based on 311 000 syllables show that the variety of consonants in the onset
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Syllable structure in Old, Middle and Modern Persian: A contrastive analysis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists. In this paper we study the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old Persian (O.P) to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P).
Aliye Kord zaferanlu Kambuziya +1 more
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