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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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Syllable Structure and Interlanguage Phonology
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989 This paper examines several research assumptions and procedures of two recent studies of interlanguage (IL) phonology that use 'syllable structure' as a primary variable, but make opposing claims about 'open' and 'closed' IL syllable structure preference.
Riney, Tim
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Syllable-Internal Structure in Iranian-Balochi Dialects [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2021 The present article dedicates to studying the syllable-internal structure in three Iranian Balochi dialects (IBDs) namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi, Sarawani and Lashari dialects. The data analysis will be based on the onset-rhyme theory (e.g., Kurylowicz, 1948;
Bahareh Soohani +2 more
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Journal of Modern LanguagesThis paper aims to re-examine the partial reduplication process in Banjarese. Previous scholars have mostly claimed that partial reduplication in this language is merely a process of copying the initial syllable of the base.
M. F. I Fuze, S. R Syed Jaafar
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Syllable Structure and External Evidence
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997 To determine what psycholinguistic evidence (or external evidence) such as slips of the tongue, monosyllabic word blends, and novel word games reveals about syllable structure, this investigation focuses on psycholinguistic research on the English and ...
Berardo, Marcellino
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Setswana Syllable Structure and Distribution
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017 This paper investigates the frequency and distribution of Setswana syllables by analysing the frequency and distribution of (orthographic representations of) Setswana syllables in a wordlist of about 59,000 words extracted from a corpus of over 13.6 ...
Thapelo J. Otlogetswe
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Length and syllable weight in Ibibio
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This paper presents a study of segment length and its relationship to the syllable in Ibibio, a Lower Cross language spoken in Nigeria. Syllable structure processes such as consonant lengthening, lenition, vowel lengthening and truncation all occur to ...
Eno-Abasi E. Urua
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2018 This paper reports on findings from an investigation into the potential impact of the mother tongue of 50 Vietnamese adult EFL learners on their English intelligibility, with a particular focus on CV (consonant - vowel) syllable structure.
Tien Ngoc Dung Dang
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A Generative Phonology: Syllable Structure of Hajji Yemeni Arabic
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2023 This study deals with the syllable structure of Hajji Yemeni Arabic (HYA) in the light of Generative Phonology. Hajji Yemeni Arabic is a variation of Arabic spoken in the northwestern part of Yemen, which tries to elaborate and discuss the elements of ...
Muhammed Jubran AL-Mamri
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