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Modeling Sonority in Terms of Pitch Intelligibility With the Nucleus Attraction Principle
Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Sonority is a fundamental notion in phonetics and phonology, central to many descriptions of the syllable and various useful predictions in phonotactics. Although widely accepted, sonority lacks a clear basis in speech articulation or perception, given that traditional formal principles in linguistic theory are often exclusively based on ...
Aviad Albert, Bruno Nicenboim
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‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 119, Issue 1, Page 1-39, March 2021., 2021 Abstract A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Vowel epenthesis, acoustics and phonology patterns in Moroccan Arabic [PDF]
Interspeech 2008, 2008 In Moroccan Arabic it is widely accepted that short vowels are mostly elided, resulting in consonant clusters and consonant geminates. In this paper we present evidence from our exploratory timing study that challenges this widely accepted principle. We work with minimal pairs of singleton consonants vs. geminates (e.g. /bka/ vs.
Ali, Azra +2 more
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Vowel Hiatus Resolution in the // Environment in Derivation Boundary in Persian Words: Optimality Theory [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2017 The purpose of this research is to analyze the process of consonant epenthesis as well as the type of the epenthetic consonant in the cases of vowel hiatus resolution in the /a-i/ environment in derivation boundary in Persian words based on Optimality ...
Zahra Esmailimatin +3 more
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مجلة العلوم التربوية والدراسات الإنسانية سلسلة الآداب والعلوم التربوية والإنسانية والتطبيقيةThis study examines vowel epenthesis (VE) in monosyllabic words in Quranic Arabic (QA), Yemeni Dialects (YD), and Hijazi Dialects (HD) using Optimality Theory (OT).
Nadhim Aldubai
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Phonological and morphological influences on vowel hiatus resolution in Rutooro
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 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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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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Initial consonant cluster epenthesis in Turkish and its implications to EFL
International Journal of Educational Spectrum, 2021 The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position of borrowed vocabulary requires the insertion of an epenthetic high vowel.
Namık Ülkersoy +2 more
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Epenthesis and vowel intrusion in Central Dhofari Mehri
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2023 Abstract The paper discusses epenthesis and vowel intrusion in the Central Dhofari variety of Mehri, one of six endangered Modern South Arabian languages indigenous to southern Arabia. Mehri is spoken by members of the Mahrah tribe in southern Oman, eastern Yemen, parts of southern and eastern Saudi Arabia and in communities in parts of ...
Watson, J.C.E. +2 more
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Isogloss, 2021 What is commonly considered as an epenthetic vowel can actually refer to at least two different realities: phonological epenthesis or phonetic excrescence. French schwa, noted [ә], is a vowel alternating with zero and limited to unstressed syllables that
Mathilde Hutin +5 more
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