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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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Sonority Sequencing Principle in Sabzevari Persian: A Constraint-Based Approach
Open Linguistics, 2019 This study sheds light on the relationship between the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) and syllable structure in Sabzevari, a Persian vernacular spoken in the Sabzevar area of Northeast Iran. Optimality Theory (OT), as a constraint-based approach, is
Alqahtani Mufleh Salem M.
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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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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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The Behaviour of the Schwa in the Saoura Spoken Arabic: schwa epenthesis and deletion
Traduction et Langues, 2020 In the present study, we argue in favour of adopting a moraic approach to the syllable to describe and explain phenomena in prosodic phonology. We indicate that the implementation of the mora (Hyman, 1985) in the Saoura Spoken Arabic (henceforth SSA ...
Lahcene Benyagoub, Bachir Bouahania
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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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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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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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Perceptual Similarity in Korean Vowel Epenthesis
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2008 n ...
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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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