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Epenthetic vowel production of unfamiliar medial consonant clusters by Japanese speakers
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 Existing nativized loanword studies have traditionally suggested that there are three epenthetic vowels in Japanese, which reflect both phonotactic restrictions and articulatory properties of certain consonant-vowel sequences in the language.
Elizabeth Hume +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]
, 2009 Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
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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 +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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