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Applying Classification Trees to Stress Patterns of Japanese Loanwords in English
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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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
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
"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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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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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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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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