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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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On Syllable Weight in Amharic

Aethiopica, 2020
Contrary to the claim made in a recently published article, that literature on Amharic stress is ‘almost nonexistent’, I present and quote from the works of Armbruster, Guidi, Abraham, and others, and discuss their concept of stress patterns in Amharic ...
Rainer Voigt
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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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Syllable weight, vowel length and focus in Lebanese Arabic

Glossa, 2021
Research on a variety of languages has shown that vowel duration is influenced by phonological vowel length as well as syllable structure (e.g., Maddieson 1997).
Niamh Kelly
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Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Modulations of amplitude rise-time are considered fundamental to speech rhythm. However, rise-time is a holistic measure of the waveform shape and, as such, may be influenced by a variety of factors, potentially obscuring relationships between speech ...
Chia-Yuan Lin, Tamara Rathcke
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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, Abbas Ali Ahangar, Marc Van Oostendorp   +2 more
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Weight Pattern of Tri-syllabic Words in Persian: Moraic Theory [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2022
This paper examines weight patterns in tri-syllabic words within a Moraic-theoretic account. A word weight pattern is weight of syllables and is defined based on distinction between heavy and light syllables (Carr, 2008:172); Here, the notion of mora ...
Hakimeh Fanoodi, Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya, Hayat Ameri   +2 more
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A Moraic Analysis of Compensatory Lengthening in Kermanshahi Persian [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2019
The present study aims at investigating the process of compensatory lengthening in Kermanshahi Persian. According to the moraic theory, if a unit in the base layer or temporal manner has Mora, and that unit is removed in the phonological layer, its mora ...
Samira Ahmadi Varmazani, Mehdi Fattahi
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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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Moraic tone-bearing units in Kabiye

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
This article provides evidence that the mora, rather than the syllable, is the tone-bearing unit in Kabiye, an Eastern Gurunsi Gur language of Togo.
David Roberts
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