Results 11 to 20 of about 6,871,598 (285)
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
openaire +2 more sources
The Syllable Structure of Seri [PDF]
International Journal of American Linguistics, 1987 From the introduction: [M]y main objective is to provide a comprehensive understanding of Seri syllable structure and facts which are relevant to it. In some cases I argue that certain data support a particular structure over another, but in some cases ...
Marlett, Stephen A.
openaire +3 more sources
Information theoretic syllable structure and its relation to the c-center effect [PDF]
, 2013 Established phonological theories postulate uniform syllable constituent structures. From a traditional hierarchical point of view, syllables are right branching implying a close connection between the nucleus and the coda.
Reichel, Uwe D.
core +1 more source
Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure [PDF]
, 2005 Unsupervised learning algorithms based on Expectation Maximization (EM) are often straightforward to implement and provably converge on a local likelihood maximum. However, these algorithms often do not perform well in practice.
Johnson, Mark +3 more
core +1 more source
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
doaj +13 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +3 more sources