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The influence of sonority on the production of words ending in -ed by Brazilian EFL learners
Ilha do Desterro, 2008 This study investigated the influence of sonority on the production of vowel epenthesis in verbs ending in -ed by Brazilian learners of English. Participants were twenty-six upper-intermediate Brazilian EFL learners who read and audio-recorded ten ...
Fernanda Delatorre
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Guébie is an Eastern Kru language spoken by about 7000 people in the Gagnoa prefecture of Côte d’Ivoire. This paper provides an overview of the phonology of Guébie, including the complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts, CVCV/CCV alternations ...
Hannah Sande
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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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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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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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Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Non-Rhoticity in English [PDF]
, 2007 Moreover, the paper demonstrates a way in which r-liaison might be incorporated in the synchronic grammar of non-rhotic accents. Simply put, r-liaison could be perceived as another instantiation of VSpread conspiracy, where vowels tend to spread their ...
Ostalski, Przemysław
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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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The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1 [PDF]
, 2015 The problem of opacity presents a challenge for generative phonology. This paper examines the process of Nasal Assimilation in Polish rendered opaque by the process of Vowel Deletion in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), which currently is a ...
Iwan, Karolina
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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]
, 2019 We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
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