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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Sonority Hierarchy"”.
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Syllable "sonority" hierarchy and the stress patterns in Pulaar. A metrical approach
… in Pulaar is heavily dependent upon the ""sonority"" of the syllables in the string. Four sonority levels emerge: CV $<$ CVC $<$ CVV $<$ CVVC. CVVC is more ""sonorous"" than CVV which is more ""sonorous"" than CVC which in turn is more ""sonorous"" than CV. Using this ""sonority"" hierarchy …
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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… found among Jersey definite articles and uses sonority-based principles to analyze the allomorphic variation. Using Jersey phonotactics, this thesis first puts forth a Jersey specific sonority hierarchy and then utilizes that hierarchy and principles of syllabification to syllabify phrases …
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Allomorphic Variation of Definite Articles in Jersey: a Sonority Based Account
… found among Jersey definite articles and uses sonority-based principles to analyze the allomorphic variation. Using Jersey phonotactics, this thesis first puts forth a Jersey specific sonority hierarchy and then utilizes that hierarchy and principles of syllabification to syllabify phrases …
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Investigating the differing role of consonants and vowels in word processing
… adults and toddlers. Speech sounds fall along a sonority hierarchy (see Chapter 1), and so the contrast between consonants and vowels are not easy to define. Thus, the introduction will explain why this contrast has a special status in the study of language. Chapter 2 will trace the story from …