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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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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]
, 2010 Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Notes on Syllable Structure in Three Arabic Dialects [PDF]
, 1986 Cet article examine quelques alternances très productives dans trois dialectes de l’arabe moderne : levantin, bani-hassan (bédouin) et soudanais. La première partie de l’article élabore une distinction entre « syllabes de base » (CV, CVV, CVC) et ...
Kenstowicz, Michael
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Mora Obstruent Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation [PDF]
, 2011 Japanese has two major phonological adaptation strategies for loanwords: phonic substitution and epenthesis. The second of these, epenthesis, refers to the insertion of additional phonemes by the borrowing language and, in the case of Japanese, may be ...
Irwin Mark
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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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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]
, 2009 We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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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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