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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Epenthesis"”.
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Syncope and Epenthesis in Levantine Arabic: A Nonlinear Approach
The nonconcatenative morphology of Arabic played a prominent role in the development of CV phonology. McCarthy (1979, 1981) showed that many Arabic word formation rules can be conceived of as stipulating a CV template to which the segmental phonemes are autosegmentally mapped. In addition, he …
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis
… concerns cluster-dependent asymmetries in vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation and in non-native cluster perception. The central argument is that auditory factors affect the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn plays an …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
This thesis explores how Cairene Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, and Najdi Arabic speakers deal with complex syllable margins in their L2 English. While previous studies have attributed Cairene and Iraqi speakers’ pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
This thesis explores how Cairene Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, and Najdi Arabic speakers deal with complex syllable margins in their L2 English. While previous studies have attributed Cairene and Iraqi speakers’ pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed …
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Stress and Epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic: Classical versus Stratal OT
… description of lexical stress and vowel epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic (AA), a variety spoken in the village of Alatawalah southwest of Saudi Arabia, which has never been studied before. It presents and compares an account of both processes in classical Optimality Theory (OT) and stratal …
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Consonant cluster phonotactics : a perceptual approach
This dissertation deals with deletion and epenthesis processes conditioned or constrained by the consonantal environment, essentially consonant deletion, vowel epenthesis and vowel deletion. It is argued that the standard generative approach to these processes, which relies on the syllable and the …
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Computational Models for the Automatic Learning and Recognition of Irish Sign Language
… of; user independent recognition, movement epenthesis modeling and automatic or weakly supervised training have not been fully addressed in a single recognition framework. This work presents three main contributions in order to address these issues. The first contribution is a technique for …
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
… which is precipitated by syncope or epenthesis. The innovative variant for the urban group is syncope whereas for the Bedouin group it is epenthesis. Overall, the results indicate that both dialects are undergoing levelling of marked linguistic features and change in progress towards …
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Identity Effects and Opacity in Syrian Arabic: An Optimality Theory Analysis
… differences stem from constraint ranking. Epenthesis and syncope in Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic are accounted for by permuting the constraint set that is present in the grammar of Syrian Arabic. A discussion of emphatic rounding in Lebanese Arabic is then pursued, comparing this dialect to SA …
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En torno a los orígenes del español. Estudio sobre las secuencias con dos nasales en castellano.
… rhotacism of the alveolar nasal and the later epenthesis of the voiced labial stop. This relative chronology is based on written records from the Middle Ages, in which spellings such as <mn>, <mr> and <mbr> are found. However, from a phonetic perspective both the sound change [mn] > [mɾ] and …
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Aspects of a Karitiana grammar
… interest in Karitiana phonology is vocalic epenthesis, which is triggered by syllabification word-internally and by syllabification as well as stress clash avoidance in certain phrasal environments. I explain the interactions between epenthesis and stress assignment in a derivational model …
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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… this study include vowel elision/deletion, vowel epenthesis, vowel coalescence, vowel nasalisation, vowel harmony, vowel raising and glide formation. In this regard, consonants are not part and parcel of this study. Furthermore, the study enriches the phonology of Tshivenḓa with more phonological …
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic
… concept of contiguity, which prevents internal epenthesis into certain strings, accounts for both the site of the epenthetic vowel and the existence of non-final CVVC and CVCC syllables.</p>
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… L2 English, but it also predicted lower rates of epenthesis in L1 readings. For the Portuguese/English subjects, perception and production in both languages were correlated, with higher accuracy in perception predicting less frequent epenthesis in production. These findings provide novel evidence …
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Towards a phonetic and phonological typology of post-velar articulation
… is phonologically appropriate. Evidence from epenthesis, laryngeal transparency and debuccalization support the analysis of ii, h/ as (+consonantal, -sonorant, +/-continuant]. Debuccalization and epenthesis processes also suggest that h/ do not necessarily bear Laryngeal Node features. It is …
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The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi
… devoicing, nasal assimilation, and consonant epenthesis.</p> <p>The Mubi verb appears in three forms: the infinitive, perfective, and imperfective. This thesis shows that verbs follow regular patterns for the formation of these forms based on the number of consonants and quality of the one …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… synchronic processes; the first is a process of epenthesis, while the second is a phonologically conditioned affixation process. Which consonant is inserted is determined by the preceding vowel: /ʤ/ occurs after /i/, /l/ after /e/ and /ɡw/ after /o/ and /u/. However, there is no regular process …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… synchronic processes; the first is a process of epenthesis, while the second is a phonologically conditioned affixation process. Which consonant is inserted is determined by the preceding vowel: /ʤ/ occurs after /i/, /l/ after /e/ and /ɡw/ after /o/ and /u/. However, there is no regular process …
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Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian
… Törkenczy (1995), Abrusán (2005)) which assumes epenthesis or metathesis. My research focuses on which stems fall into this closed group of vowel-zero alternating stems. I show that there is an interaction between phonological processes that repair phonotactically illicit consonant clusters – …
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Repetition avoidance in human language
… those of phonology (specifically, deletion and epenthesis/insertion). Repetition effects, then, are traceable to a variety of independent, functional biases. This argues against a unitary, innate constraint against repetition. Rather, multiple anti-repetition biases result in particular …
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