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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Geminates"”.
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The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates
… and Luganda. The observed patterning of initial geminates indicates the need for revision of currentlydefended models of prosodic representation. Specifically, it is shown that the diverse patterning of geminates in these languages is best accounted for within a framework that assumes the …
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The Phonological Unity of Intervocalic Stop Weakening in Romance (Italian, Spanish, Historical Linguistics)
… and Western Romance. In the West, original geminates have simplified, single surds have voiced, and voiced stops have been lost or have merged with the results of historical voicing. In the East, geminates remain, voiced stops are mostly maintained, but in Tuscan dialects, and in …
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The role of perceptual similarity and gradient phonotactic well-formedness in loan gemination processes/
… in the native phonology, both singletons and geminates can be found in word-final and intervocalic position (where loan gemination could potentially apply), therefore - on the face of it - there is nothing in the native phonotactics that would require gemination (Nddasdy, 1989). In this …
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Lexical and Language Modeling of Diacritics and Morphemes in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition
… which informs the reader about short vowels, geminates, and nunnations (word ending /n/). A lack of diacritics means that 30% of textual information is missing, causing ambiguities in lexical and language modeling when attempting to model pronunciations, and the context of a particular …
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Stress and Epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic: Classical versus Stratal OT
… consonants, onset clusters, and word-final geminates in AA words. Vowel epenthesis that remedies the prohibition on word-final geminates has never been attested before in any Arabic dialect. Furthermore, only the AA variety can have up to three epenthetic vowels per word. In addition, the …
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Perception and Production of Geminate Consonants by English Speakers and Kuwaiti Arabic Speakers
… where short consonants were derived from natural geminates and paired with their natural counterparts (Natural G condition), Kuwaiti Arabic speakers were able to discriminate the contrast almost all of the time. Kuwaiti Arabic speakers reproduced a length contrast in both conditions. Furthermore, …
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The Distribution of /s/ in Blackfoot: An Optimality Theory Account
… being the only outliers. While all other geminates occur between vowels, geminate /ss/ often occurs before, after, or between other consonants. This thesis aims to make three specific contributions: (i) to describe the distribution of /s/ in Blackfoot, (ii) to propose that a non-vocoid may …
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The Distribution of /s/ in Blackfoot: An Optimality Theory Account
… being the only outliers. While all other geminates occur between vowels, geminate /ss/ often occurs before, after, or between other consonants. This thesis aims to make three specific contributions: (i) to describe the distribution of /s/ in Blackfoot, (ii) to propose that a non-vocoid may …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… 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 number of vowel harmony rules that assimilate affix vowels to stem vowels. Chapters 3 through 6 …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… 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 number of vowel harmony rules that assimilate affix vowels to stem vowels. Chapters 3 through 6 …
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English loanwords in Thai and optimality theory
… undergo syllable adaptation and behave like geminates in word borrowings in Thai. Most cases show that ambisyllabic/geminate consonants in loanwords are unaspirated. A few cases are aspirated.The study has revealed that there is still more room for improvement in 0T. The standard OT allowing …