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The competitive tier model – Element subtraction in German and Pomeranian
Glossa, 2019 Competition of segmental material is inherent to all proposals of phonological template satisfaction. Segments are aligned with a prosodic template and compete for prosodic space. This vowel competition for space is well-known from the Semitic languages.
Gertjan Postma
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The rephonologisation of Shona loanwords from English: an optimality theory analysis
Acta Academica, 2012 In their quest to respond to scientific and educational demands, speakers of Shona, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe, have expanded its lexical stock by borrowing mainly from the English language. The two languages have different phonologies,
Maxwell Kadenge
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A Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Borrowings in Ciluba Utterances by Kinshasa Motor Riders [PDF]
Ziglôbitha: Borrowings are inevitable in a multilingual context. This paper investigates the use of borrowings by motor riders commonly called wewa in Kinshasa, Kalamu (Ezo).
Claude NTAMBWA CIMANGA, Jipsy KALONJI MUTEBA, Raphael MULOWAYI MUAMBILA BANTU & Willy MUDIMBIY NDJIBU
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English Vowel Hiatus and Consonant Epenthesis
Studies in English Language & Literature, 2018 Vowel hiatus arises when two vowels are locally adjacent but heterosyllabified within words or across word boundaries. In English, as well-described, vowel clash is resolved by two strategies; glide insertion and glottal stop insertion. In fact, these sounds are not underlyingly present but added for ease of articulation in casual or fast speech ...
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Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2012 The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within ...
Lori Repetti
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Perceptual Similarity in Korean Vowel Epenthesis
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2008 n ...
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Glossa, 2017 This study acoustically compares lexically short vowels in Palestinian Arabic to vowels that are underlyingly long, but have undergone closed syllable shortening, a phonological process affecting certain CV:CC sequences (as in /faːq-ʃ/ → faqʃ ‘woke ...
Nancy Hall
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sC-clusters in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper discusses word-initial (sibilant + consonant) sequences that may or may not be preceded by a vowel in Brazilian Portuguese, as, for example, in escola [isˈkɔlə] ~ [ˈskɔlə] ‘school’ or Skype [isˈkajpi] ~ [ˈskajpi].
Matheus Freitas +1 more
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Perception of illusory vowels by Persian speakers in several consonant clusters of French loanwords [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroduction Previous research has highlighted the challenge listeners face in distinguishing between legitimate and non-native consonant sequences, presenting potential perceptual illusions (Berent, et al., 2007; Dupoux, et al., 1999). Some researchers
Saghar Javidpour +2 more
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Revista Linguística, 2017 Ellen Broselow is a Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University and a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. Her work investigates loanword phonology, acquisition, and their interfaces with perception.
Gean Damulakis
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