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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Phonological process"”.
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Intelligibility: From Phoneme to Process
… preliminary investigation explores the impact of phonological processes on speech intelligibility. The influence of traditional articulation theory and phonological theory on the assessment of unintelligible speech is reviewed. Traditionally based articulation assessment of speech intelligibility …
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Metaphony in Italian and Spanish dialects revisited
Metaphony is a historic phonological process by which the tonic vowel of a word assimilates a feature of a following postonic vowel. As a result, most discussions of metaphony have been within a diachronic framework. In many of the Italian dialects which demonstrate metaphony to one degree or …
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Perceptual sources for closed-syllable vowel laxing and derived environment effects
… word-final and preobstruent consonants, and phonologically-derived environment effects (PDEEs), i.e. patterns where a phonological process is blocked unless accompanied by another phonological process. CSVL is challenging because the mechanism that relates vowel quality and the postvocalic …
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Prevalence of Phonological Processes in Normal Two-Year Olds
… than three years of age. The development of phonological process theory has improved the means for studying the emerging phonological skills of the younger child. An adequate description of the sequential suppression of processes in normal phonological development is presently unavailable. …
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Two aspects of Sliammon phonology: Glide/Obstruent alternation and vowel length
… is argued that Glide/Obstruent Alternation is a phonological process which is sensitive not only to syllable structure but also to the moraic affiliation of the segment in question. Specifically, deletion of the feature [-continuant] targets any [sonorant][high] segment in moraic position. By …
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Stress and Epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic: Classical versus Stratal OT
… It presents and compares an account of both processes in classical Optimality Theory (OT) and stratal OT. Stress can be a purely phonological process in many words in AA. Yet, on the other hand, morphology affects it greatly, to the extent that stress-based minimal pairs such as /ˈmak.ta.bəh/ …
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Topics in the Grammar of Koryak
… morpheme-final position needs to be handled by a phonological process that applies to bare morphemes. In the second chapter, I argue for a similar conclusion regarding the language’s vowel harmony system. Both of these chapters there- fore argue for a phonological architecture that includes the …
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Assimilation in classical Arabic: a phonological study
… with the phenomenon of assimilation, a natural phonological process, in classical Arabic. It consists of three chapters: The first chapter of the thesis deals with the Arabic sounds in isolation: their points of articulation and manners of articulation with reference to the views of both Arab …
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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… This proposal focuses on a study of selected phonological processes involving Tshivenḓa vowels. The Tshivenḓa phonological processes involving vowels under this study include vowel elision/deletion, vowel epenthesis, vowel coalescence, vowel nasalisation, vowel harmony, vowel raising and glide …