Search Results - "Phonology"

No stress, no pitch accent, no prosodic focus: the case of Ambonese Malay by Maskikit-Essed, Raechel, Gussenhoven, Carlos

“…Varieties of Malay, including Indonesian, have been variously described as having word stress on the penultimate syllable, as having variable word stress and…”
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The binary-to-ternary rhythmic continuum in stress typology: layered feet and non-intervention constraints by Martínez-Paricio, Violeta, Kager, René

“…This article presents a novel OT analysis of ternary rhythm, using the restrictive format of McCarthy (2003)'s categorical alignment constraints, which we will…”
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Lenition, perception and neutralisation by Katz, Jonah

“…This paper argues that processes traditionally classified as lenition fall into at least two subsets, with distinct phonetic reflexes, formal properties and…”
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Explaining sonority projection effects by Daland, Robert, Hayes, Bruce, White, James, Garellek, Marc, Davis, Andrea, Norrmann, Ingrid

“…The term sonority projection refers to behavioural distinctions speakers make between unattested phonological sequences on the basis of sonority. For example,…”
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Computationally, tone is different by Jardine, Adam

“…This paper establishes that unbounded circumambient processes, phonological processes for which crucial information in the environment may appear unboundedly…”
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Relating application frequency to morphological structure: the case of Tommo So vowel harmony by McPherson, Laura, Hayes, Bruce

“…We describe three vowel-harmony processes in Tommo So and their interaction with morphological structure. The verbal suffixes of Tommo So occur in a strict…”
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Analytic bias and phonological typology by Moreton, Elliott

“…Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology: channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic…”
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Moraic onsets in Arrernte by Topintzi, Nina, Nevins, Andrew

“…The Australian language Arrernte has been argued by Breen & Pensalfini (1999) and Evans & Levinson (2009) to present a case of VC syllabification with coda…”
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Defying the stimulus: acquisition of complex onsets in Polish by Jarosz, Gaja

“…Behavioural findings indicate that English, Mandarin and Korean speakers exhibit gradient sonority sequencing preferences among unattested initial clusters…”
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A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal by Lionnet, Florian

“…This paper introduces subfeatural representations to capture subphonemic distinctions at work in ‘subphonemic teamwork’. The unusual case of Laal is presented,…”
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Generalised mora affixation and quantity-manipulating morphology by Trommer, Jochen, Zimmermann, Eva

“…One of the major attributes of autosegmental phonology is the possibility of reducing procedural techniques of morphological exponence to a generalised concept…”
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Constraint conjunction in weighted probabilistic grammar by Shih, Stephanie S.

“…This paper examines a key difference between constraint conjunction and constraint weight additivity, arguing that the two do not have the same empirical…”
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Word-prosodic typology by Hyman, Larry M.

“…Numerous proposals have been advanced as to how prosodic systems should be typologised. In this paper I distinguish two prototype systems, tone and stress…”
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Weight gradience and stress in Portuguese by Garcia, Guilherme D.

“…This paper examines the role of weight in stress assignment in the Portuguese lexicon, and proposes a probabilistic approach to stress. I show that weight…”
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Vowel-length contrasts and phonetic cues to stress: an investigation of their relation by Lunden, Anya, Campbell, Jessica, Hutchens, Mark, Kalivoda, Nick

“…The functional load hypothesis of Berinstein (1979) put forward the idea that languages which use a suprasegmental property (duration, F0) contrastively will…”
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Illusory vowels in perceptual epenthesis: the role of phonological alternations by Durvasula, Karthik, Kahng, Jimin

“…Listeners often perceive illusory vowels when presented with consonant sequences that violate phonotactic constraints in their language. Previous research…”
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Sisterhood in prosodic branching by Myrberg, Sara

“…This article discusses the syntax–prosody interface, drawing on evidence from Stockholm Swedish. It is shown that a Swedish main clause containing an embedded…”
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Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure: a case study of Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters by Shaw, Jason A., Gafos, Adamantios I., Hoole, Philip, Zeroual, Chakir

“…We asked whether invariant phonetic indices for syllable structure can be identified in a language where word-initial consonant clusters, regardless of their…”
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Gestural coordination of Italian word-initial clusters: the case of ‘impure s’ by Hermes, Anne, Mücke, Doris, Grice, Martine

“…We report on an articulatory study which uses an electromagnetic articulograph to investigate word-initial consonant clusters in Italian. In particular, we…”
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The power of locality domains in phonology by Graf, Thomas

“…Domains play an integral role in linguistic theories. This paper combines locality domains with current models of the computational complexity of phonology…”
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