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An overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology [PDF]
, 2010 Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto-Burman language family, little research has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the Old Tibetan phonemic system by associating sound values with the ...
Beckwith +78 more
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Temporal structure of mouse courtship vocalizations facilitates syllable labeling
Communications Biology, 2020 Mice emit sequences of ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) but little is known about the rules governing their temporal order and no consensus exists on the classification of USVs into syllables.
Stav Hertz +3 more
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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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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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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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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic
, 2019 953 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any
Bassil Mashaqba +3 more
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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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Some acoustic and articulatory correlates of phrasal stress in Spanish [PDF]
, 2016 All spoken languages show rhythmic patterns. Recent work with a number of different languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and French) suggests that metrically (hierarchically) assigned stress levels of the utterance show strong correlations
Erickson, Donna +5 more
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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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