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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 weight, vowel length and focus in Lebanese Arabic [PDF]

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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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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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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Syllable weight as a phonological variable

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2017
Abstract This is an abridged version of a paper originally published over forty years ago (Newman 1972). It is being reprinted here because of its significance in the history of phonological theory and its contribution to African linguistics.
Paul Newman
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Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: In defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy [PDF]

Glossa, 2018
Spanish has a contrastive stress system with three major possibilities: antepenultimate, penultimate, and final stress. While penultimate and final stress are to some extent predictable, a major point of contention in the literature is whether ...
Martín Fuchs
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Syllable Weight Gradation in the Luwic Languages [PDF]

Transactions of the Philological Society, 2020
AbstractThis paper offers a new perspective on Čop's Law and Open Syllable Lengthening, two commonly accepted sound laws that lengthened both consonants and vowels in the Luwic languages. It is proposed that both developments take similar inputs and ultimately yield the same effect: neutralisation of the syllable weight opposition in accented (stressed)
Alexander Vertegaal
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SYLLABLE WEIGHT IN DHOLUO

The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2023
This paper is about syllable weight in Dholuo, a Western Nilotic language spoken in south-western Kenya and the neighbouring northern tip of Tanzania. Dholuo has both open and closed syllables,as well as heavy and light syllables. A light syllable in Dholuo consists of CV, V, CVC or VC syllable structures (or V and VC rhyme structures),while a heavy ...
Jane A N Oduor
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Syllable weight and tone in Mara Bantu languages [PDF]

, 2017
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Lotta Aunio
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English monosyllables and syllable weight

, 2018
Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht einen Überblick über die möglichen Veränderungen im Silbengewicht der englischen einsilbigen Wörter zu vermitteln. Obwohl die englische Sprache dazu neigte, zunehmend monosyllabisch zu werden, besonders nach dem Schwa-Schwund in der zweiten Hälfte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts (Minkova 1991), wie bereits von Jespersen ...
Vanja Vuković
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