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Cross-level interactions in Latin: Vowel shortening, vowel deletion and vowel gliding
Serial and parallel OT differ in the way they account for phonological generalizations referring to more than one level of the prosodic hierarchy. Vowel shortening in Latin is analyzed by McCarthy, Pater & Pruitt (2016) as a case in point.
Haike Jacobs
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Vowel Deletion and Insertion in Úwù
Úwù is one of the many endangered languages in Nigeria.The number of its fluent speakers is believed to be less than 2000.The language is spoken in a small community known as Àyèré in Ìjùmú Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi state.
Allison Idris Olawale
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Mid vowel raising and second vowel deletion in Oiartzun Basque
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Bill Haddican, Paul Foulkes
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Tone Sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi
Within the theoretical framework of nonlinear phonology, this paper proposes an account of tone sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi, a Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria. The database is Hoffman's Grammar of the Margi Language.
Bernard Tranel
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Àbèsàbèsì1 is an endangered Nigerian language spoken in nine settlementswithin the Akoko North East and Akoko North West Local GovernmentAreas (LGA) of Ondo State by an estimated total of less than 7,000 speakers.In this language, as in many other Benue-Congo languages, it is a commoncase that two vowels meet across a word boundary.
Agoyi, Taiwo Opeyemi +2 more
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Analysis of vowel addition or deletion in Continuous Speech [PDF]
In order to improve the recognition performance, the articulation of the transcription is very important in the process of training. For continuous speech, the essential characteristics of various speakers are pronunciation variation, over focused or inadequately highlighted words can results the waveform misalignment in the sub word unit margin ...
Balakrishnan Sivakumar +1 more
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Elision of Glottal Consonants in Kalhori Kurdish Names [PDF]
Persian and Kalhori Kurdish, display some differences in the phonetic forms of names containing glottal consonants. This article attempts to analyze the deletion of glottal consonants of post-vocalic /h/ and /ʔ/. The data was collected through interviews
Mehdi Fattahi
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Phonological Processes in Complex and Compound Words [PDF]
This research at making a comparison between phonological processes in complex and compound Persian words. Data are gathered from a 40,000-word Persian dictionary. To catch some results, 4,034 complex words and 1,464 compound ones are chosen.
Alieh Kord Zaferanlu Kambuziya +2 more
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The Analysis of Compensatory Lengthening of Vowel in Ilami Kurdish Variants Based on Moraic Phonology [PDF]
The present study focuses on compensatory lengthening of vowel in Ilami Kurdish variants on the basis of Moraic Theory. In Moraic Theory, one segment is removed from phonological layer but its mora remains in moraic layer. In the above-mentioned variants
elham sobati
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Phonological and morphological influences on vowel hiatus resolution in Rutooro
When the morphology of a language creates instances of successive vowels, these cases of vowel hiatus are often resolved or repaired. This paper presents a wide variety of instances where vowel hiatus is created within verbs in Rutooro, a Ugandan Bantu ...
Bickmore, Lee
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