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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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An integrative survey on Indian sign language recognition and translation
IET Image Processing, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.This study aims to survey the Indian sign language (ISL) interpretation literature and give pertinent information about ISL recognition and translation (ISLRT). It provides an overview of recent advances in ISLRT, including the use of machine learning based, deep learning based, and gesture‐based techniques. This work also summarizes the development of
Rina Damdoo, Praveen Kumar
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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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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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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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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 678-697, March/April 2024.Abstract Background Non‐word repetition (NWR) tests are an important way speech and language therapists (SaLTs) assess language development. NWR tests are often scored whilst participants make their responses (i.e., in real time) in clinical and research reports (documented here via a secondary analysis of a published systematic review).
Peter Howell +5 more
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Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis
Languages, 2019 The current study examines the realization of adjacent vowels across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, focusing specifically on the rate of glottal stop epenthesis in this context (e.g., hombre africano
Sherez Mohamed +2 more
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data from the verbatim transcription section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal ...
Mikołaj Nkollo
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Vocali epentetiche in Lunigiana
Géolinguistique, 2013 In this work I tackle the description of the phonological process known as epenthesis in two geographically-related dialects spoken in Carrara (MS) and Pontremoli (MS).
Edoardo Cavirani
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