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Acoustics of stress and weight in Central Alaskan Yup’ik
In Central Alaskan Yup’ik, syllables with long vowels are always stressed, light syllables alternate stress, but only certain closed syllables are stressed.
Anja Arnhold, McKinley Alden
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SYLLABLE WEIGHT AND SECONDARY STRESS IN ENGLISH SUFFIXAL DERIVATIVES [PDF]
International audienceThis paper investigates the relationship between syllable weight and secondary stress in a corpus of 1450 English suffixal derivatives.
Dabouis, Quentin
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Phonetic effects of onset complexity on the English syllable
Although onsets do not arbitrate stress placement in English categorically, results from Kelly (2004) and Ryan (2014) suggest that English stress assignment is nevertheless sensitive to onset complexity.
Anna Mai
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Against Old English ‘short’ diphthongs
Since the earliest grammars, Old English has been analysed as having a length contrast in diphthongs, containing both regular, bimoraic ones, side by side with cross-linguistically unique monomoraic ones.
Helena Sobol
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Acoustic Correlations of Speech Rhythms in Persian Based on Variability of Between-speakers Characteristics [PDF]
The durational variability of phonetic intervals is considered as one of the properties of speech rhythm. These intervals include segmental, vowel, consonantal, vocalic, intervocalic, voiced, unvoiced, syllable, and syllable peak intervals.
Nafiseh Taghva +2 more
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We have two aims in this paper. Our first aim is to show that syllables exist in TİD prosody (Türk İşaret Dili – Turkish Sign Language). A specific domain in prosody is substantiated only if there are phonological phenomena that refer to that domain as ...
Kadir Gökgöz
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On the (in)fissibility of intervocalic consonants in Norwegian and German: Evidence from a word game
The syllabification of word- or morpheme-internal consonants, especially those preceded by short vowels, in Germanic languages has been subject to various analyses and there is generally not much consensus on the analysis of single string-internal ...
Martin Krämer, Barbara Vogt
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Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: In defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy
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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Automatic meter classification of Kurdish poems.
Most of the classic texts in Kurdish literature are poems. Knowing the meter of the poems is helpful for correct reading, a better understanding of the meaning, and avoiding ambiguity.
Aso Mahmudi, Hadi Veisi
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ERP evidence for Slavic and German word stress cue sensitivity in English
Word stress is demanding for non-native learners of English, partly because speakers from different backgrounds weight perceptual cues to stress like pitch, intensity, and duration differently.
Marina Ivanova +3 more
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