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Disyllables and Syllable Weight [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceA corpus based assessment of the effect of syllable weight on the stress of English disyllables, with special attention to disyllabic verbs.
Dabouis, Quentin, Fournier, Jean-Michel
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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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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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The paradox of Portuguese /Vr/-rhymes: Disentangling weight from length via structure-based sonority
Glossa, 2023 The assumption that Portuguese stress is weight-sensitive is supported by strong arguments. However, oxytones ending with open syllables remain a major problem for this claim, unless vowels can be independently proved to be heavy without being long.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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Tonologie du mandinka du Pakaawu
Mandenkan, 2020 This article describes the tonal system of Pakaawu Mandinka. This Manding variety is characterized by the importance of syllable weight in the conditioning of tonal phenomena, and by systematic tonal alternations affecting the last syllable of words that
Denis Creissels
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Applying Classification Trees to Stress Patterns of Japanese Loanwords in English
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2023 This paper provides an analysis of the stress patterns of loanwords of Japanese origin in English. The ctree function of the party package in R is used to create classification trees.
Bradley Lunsford
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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.
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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
Glossa, 2022 Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has shown that this is not always the case.
Heather Goad, Jeffrey Lamontagne
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Syllable "Sonority" Hierarchy and Pulaar Stress: A Metrical Approach
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995 "Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition…' (Hayes 1989) . That is, syllable weight distinctions are claimed to be at most binary: heavy vs light; bimoraic vs monomoraic.
Niang, Mamadou
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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 ...
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