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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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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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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 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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A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight [PDF]
Language, 2002 The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other.
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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 PsychologyModulations 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 +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 +2 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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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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