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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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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Some Further Observations on the Spelling of English Compounds
ELOPE, 2010 This paper explores the main factors which determine the spelling of English N+N compounds. On the basis of a corpus extracted from LDCE (2000) and LDCE (2003), I discuss the following factors, which may have an influence on the spelling of English N+N ...
Stanimir Rakić
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The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2010 A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in non-native speech, and the ...
Porzuczek, Andrzej
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Checked Syllables, Checked Tones, and Tone Sandhi in Xiapu Min
Languages, 2022 A “checked” syllable usually refers to one with a short vowel and an oral or glottal coda, which results impressionistically in a “short” and “abrupt” quality. Although common in languages of the world, it is unclear how to characterize checked syllables
Yuan Chai, Shihong Ye
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Energy And Symmetry In Language And Yoga [PDF]
, 2008 The structures of syllables and of yoga poses are compared. Syllables are tripartite, with sound segments rising in sonority (acoustic energy) to a peak, then falling.
Hess, Sally, Napoli, Donna Jo
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Word-Length Correlations and Memory in Large Texts: A Visibility Network Analysis
Entropy, 2015 We study the correlation properties of word lengths in large texts from 30 ebooks in the English language from the Gutenberg Project (www.gutenberg.org) using the natural visibility graph method (NVG).
Lev Guzmán-Vargas +4 more
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The neural correlates of speech motor sequence learning [PDF]
, 2015 Speech is perhaps the most sophisticated example of a species-wide movement capability in the animal kingdom, requiring split-second sequencing of approximately 100 muscles in the respiratory, laryngeal, and oral movement systems. Despite the unique role
Beal, Deryk S. +3 more
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Speech Prosody 2022, 2022 Both sonority, via the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), and timing, via the coupled oscillator model advanced within Articulatory Phonology (AP), have been invoked to define the syllable as a unit. Georgian presents challenges for both definitions. The irrelevance of the SSP for Georgian phonotactics is well documented, while it is unclear whether ...
Crouch, Caroline +2 more
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Morpological stratification in Dinka
Studies in African Linguistics, 1992 Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology.
Torben Andersen
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