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Effects of phonotactic predictability on sensitivity to phonetic detail

Laboratory Phonology, 2019
Japanese speakers systematically devoice or delete high vowels [i, u] between two voiceless consonants. Japanese listeners also report perceiving the same high vowels between consonant clusters even in the absence of a vocalic segment.
James Whang
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An OT Approach to Loanword Adaptation in Cairene Arabic

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004
Cairene Arabic (CA) elects epenthesis as a strategy for adapting loanwords. This paper tackles the reasons why this occurs as well as the different aspects of vowel epenthesis within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT)(McCarthy and Prince, 1993 ...
Galal, Mohamed
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English and Portuguese consonant clusters: contrasts and challenges [PDF]

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020
Consonant clusters occur both in Portuguese and English. However, clusters are more productive in English than in Portuguese and there are sequences which are only found in English.This study focuses on the contrasts between American English and ...
Sandra Madureira
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Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions: the case of Arabic epenthesis

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Vowel epenthesis and stress patterns in Arabic dialects vary widely; understanding their interaction is crucial for phonological theory. This study investigates how different Arabic dialects handle medial CCC clusters and how stress assignment interacts ...
Abdullah Alfaifi
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Verbal Suppletion in Romance Synchrony and Diachrony: The Perspective of Distributed Morphology

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 117, Issue 3, Page 471-497, November 2019., 2019
Abstract This article studies the various suppletive patterns found with respect to the Romance movement verb go, both under a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). The Romance varieties all started with the loss of verbal forms of Lat.
Natascha Pomino, Eva‐Maria Remberger
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Inter-consonantal intervals in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic: Accounting for variable epenthesis

Laboratory Phonology, 2019
This paper reports on an acoustic investigation of inter-consonantal intervals in plosive sequences in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic (TLA). TLA permits a wide range of two, three, and four-consonant strings within and across word boundaries.
Abdurraouf Shitaw, Barry Heselwood, Leendert Plug   +2 more
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Facilitatory Effects of Vowel Epenthesis on Word Processing in Dutch [PDF]

Journal of Memory and Language, 1999
Four experiments examined the effects on word processing of insertion of an optional epenthetic vowel in word-final consonant clusters in Dutch. Such epenthesis turns film for instance into fillem. In a word reversal task listeners treated words with and without epenthesis alike, as monosyllables, suggesting that the variant forms do not have separate ...
Van Donselaar, W., Kuijpers, C., Cutler, A.   +2 more
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Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish

Glossa, 2020
Central Yiddish (CY) has inserted schwas that occur between long vowels or diphthongs and certain coda consonants. In the most restrictive varieties, schwas are inserted only between long high vowels or diphthongs and uvular or rhotic codas (as in /biːχ/
Marc Garellek
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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker, Hamish Chalmers, Victoria A. Murphy   +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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