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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Consonant clusters"”.
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Statistical satructure of consonant clusters
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics, 1956.
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… including unattested marked and unmarked consonant clusters under artificial phonotactics constraints, following training in articulating the unattested segments. If speakers are sensitive to markedness in unfamiliar consonant clusters and capable of learning recently encountered patterns, …
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Neural representations used by brain regions underlying speech production
… are manipulated separately but those within consonant clusters act as one motor unit. Moreover, speech error data suggest that a syllable's phonological content is, at some stage, represented separately from its syllabic frame structure. These observations indicate that speech is neurally …
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis
… the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn plays an important role in determining the site of epenthesis in loanword adaptation. This dissertation provides an extended typology of vowel epenthesis sites in consonant …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed syllable structures from their native language, this thesis illustrates that the universal markedness of consonant clusters could be a factor that motivates L2 speakers to simplify complex syllable margins. …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed syllable structures from their native language, this thesis illustrates that the universal markedness of consonant clusters could be a factor that motivates L2 speakers to simplify complex syllable margins. …
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Measuring children’s sensitivity to phonological detail using eye tracking and pupillometry
… featural makeup of homorganic and heterorganic consonant clusters (Chapter 4). Gradient sensitivity on the one hand and sensitivity to homorganicity on the other hand would suggest that lexical processing makes use of sub-phonemic information, which in turn would indicate that early words …
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English loanwords in Thai and optimality theory
… loanwords in Thai, particularly the treatment of consonants in different environments, namely onset/coda simplification, laryngeal features, medial consonants, and liquid alternation, within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT: Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004). The major objectives are: (1) to …
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Verb Contraction in the West Saxon Dialect of Old English: An Optimality Theory Account
… The data is organized according to the final consonant of the verb stem in order to allow a process of analysis that builds a constraint ranking able to account for the changes in all the verbs under consideration, including vowel deletion, assimilation, dissimilation, and simplification of …
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Verb Contraction in the West Saxon Dialect of Old English: An Optimality Theory Account
… The data is organized according to the final consonant of the verb stem in order to allow a process of analysis that builds a constraint ranking able to account for the changes in all the verbs under consideration, including vowel deletion, assimilation, dissimilation, and simplification of …
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Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian
… processes that repair phonotactically illicit consonant clusters – like voicing assimilation, gemination, affrication – and vowel-zero alternations. I present a proposal relying on underspecification that correctly predicts that these phonological processes block vowel-zero alternations. The …
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The Way South Vietnamese Pronounce English
… detailed analysis of the vowels, diphthongs, consonants and consonant clusters pronounced by the subjects. The bulk of this chapter could have been contained in an appendix. A reader may choose to read only the first few pages and then go on to chapter 6. Chapter 6 is a summary of the vowels, …
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A Sociolinguistic Survey of (t,d) deletion, (t) glottaling, and their intersection in East Anglian English
… of (t) deletion and (t) glottaling in word-final consonant clusters (e.g. different). (t,d) deletion has been largely investigated in US English dialects, yet it has received comparatively little attention in the UK. (t) glottaling has been widely examined as a change in progress in England …
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Phonology-Morphology Interaction in Abha Arabic: Vowel Processes in Stratal Optimality Theory
… a framework with different levels. Repairing consonant clusters provided a rich source for the analysis because they are repaired in many different ways in the dialect under study. The position and the quality of the epenthetic vowel vary based on the level these clusters are repaired at. …
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Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory
… Sanskrit share the property that root-initial consonant clusters exhibit different reduplicant shapes, depending on their featural composition. Moreover, even though the core featural distinction largely overlaps across the languages, the actual patterns which instantiate that distinction are …
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
… notes illustrating the inventories of consonant and vowel glyphs, consonant clusters, ligatures and special orthographic forms, use of subscripts and superscripts, numerals, punctuation, and the Tai Nuea spelling system. The phonemic transcription and annotated English translation of …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… In Brazilian Portuguese, for example, no stop consonant may occur at the end of a syllable, and any syllables in violation of this constraint are repaired by inserting an epenthetic /i/. Similarly, word-initial /sC/ clusters are disallowed in Spanish and are modified with a prothetic /e/ before …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… processes. Awtuw has eleven phonemic consonants and seven vowels isolated on the basis of minimal pairs. Morphophonemic rules simplify geminates and certain other consonant clusters, elide vowels, assimilate nasals to following stops, and insert epenthetic vowels. There are also a …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… processes. Awtuw has eleven phonemic consonants and seven vowels isolated on the basis of minimal pairs. Morphophonemic rules simplify geminates and certain other consonant clusters, elide vowels, assimilate nasals to following stops, and insert epenthetic vowels. There are also a …
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