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A Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Borrowings in Ciluba Utterances by Kinshasa Motor Riders [PDF]
Ziglôbitha: Borrowings are inevitable in a multilingual context. This paper investigates the use of borrowings by motor riders commonly called wewa in Kinshasa, Kalamu (Ezo).
Claude NTAMBWA CIMANGA, Jipsy KALONJI MUTEBA, Raphael MULOWAYI MUAMBILA BANTU & Willy MUDIMBIY NDJIBU
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Lagos' Bus Stop Names and their Pronunciations by Danfo Bus Conductors
Arbitrer, 2021 Danfo Buses are one of the main means of transportation in Lagos. For commuters to move from one location to another, it is highly essential that they know their bus stops and how the Danfo bus conductors pronounce them.
Kenneth Obiorah
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023 The article provides a descriptive account of the phonology of Kussummiya spoken in southwest Ethiopia. It is basically a qualitative study in that linguistic data are collected from native speakers by using elicitation technique. The collected data are
Wondwosen Tesfaye
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Vowel deletion in two Aymara varieties
Italian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 Aymara vowels delete under predictable phonotactic, syntactic, and morphophonemic conditions. We provide a detailed description of each of these processes, with special attention to morphophonemic vowel deletion. In this process, specific suffixes trigger the deletion of the preceding vowel, with no obvious phonological or semantic conditioning.
Coler, M. +2 more
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Phonological Adaptation of Loanwords in Azarbaijani Turkish Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 This study presents an overview of phonological adaptation of loanwords in Azerbaijani Turkish Language by breaking up the initial clusters. The syllable structure of Azerbaijani Turkish Language is CV(C)(C). That is ONSET is obligatory in this language,
Roshan Babaalipour +2 more
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Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen
Linguistik Online, 2019 This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure ...
Javier Caro Reina
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A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho
Glossa, 2019 In the Algonquian language Arapaho, epenthetic vowels only show up if they can attract an underlying floating high tone. I argue that this co-dependency of tone and epenthesis should not be analysed as tone-triggered epenthesis (which has been claimed ...
Daniel Gleim
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Vowel Epenthesis in English Loanwords in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2016 In Persian, consonant clusters are avoided in onset position. So in the case of lexical borrowing, when word formation violates the phonotactic rules, and makes a consonant or vowel cluster, Persian resolves the onset cluster by epenthesis, deletion, and
Zahra Esmaili Matin +1 more
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Alternasi Bunyi Bahasa Indonesia dalam Kognat Melayu Ulu Kapuas
Aksara, 2023 Indonesian is derived from Standard Malay; while Ulu Kapuas is a dialect of Malay. Sameness between the two language codes is shown by their identical cognates. There are other cognates showing sound alternations.
Fauzi Syamsuar
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Preference in Strategies of Hiatus Resolutions: An Optimality Theoretic Account of Clitics in Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānVowel hiatus as one of the intolerable phenomena in most world languages is caused after morphological processes like affixation and cliticization. Each language tries to resolve this situation using the resolutions at hand.
Tahereh Jafari, Mehdi Fattahi
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