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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Vowel epenthesis"”.
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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 …
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Stress and Epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic: Classical versus Stratal OT
… comprehensive 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 …
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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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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… 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 formation. In this regard, consonants are …
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Phonology-Morphology Interaction in Abha Arabic: Vowel Processes in Stratal Optimality Theory
… The main motivations are providing an account of vowel processes in Abha Arabic and testing Stratal OT’s ability to account for vowel epenthesis, vowel lengthening, and vowel shortening. The Stratal OT framework is put to the test to see if it can account for opacity, which proved to be …