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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"syllable"”.
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Phonological Awareness of Stress and Syllable
… children's intuitive knowledge of sounds and syllables because of contributions of these linguistic units to language learning, and more specifically literacy. Children learn to interpret streams of speech through the development of segmentation skills. This study investigated the abilites of …
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Syllable-based generalizations in English phonology.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Accent and syllable structure in Passamaquoddy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1989.
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Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Acoustic Correlates of the Syllable: Evidence From Spanish
… would support the existence of the constituent syllable in phonological theory. The hypothesis is that syllable structure can be identified by examining the temporal dimension of segments. The central idea of this thesis, following work by other authors on other languages, is that the duration …
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Aspects of segmental phonology and Chinese syllable structure
The syllable has been recognized as a prosodic unit as demonstrated in the work of Kahn (1976), Steriade (1982), Levin (1985), McCarthy and Prince (1986), and Ito (1986), among others. However, the exact composition of the syllable is still controversial. The theory of Prosodic Morphology and …
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Syllable-based constraints on properties of English sounds
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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Syllabification and syllable weight in Ancient Greek songs
… speech). This is the mapping of a sequence of syllables/segments onto a sequence of timing units or beats. The empirical ground is provided by Ancient Greek musical scores. We analyze the way that sensitivity to syllable weight manifests itself in beat mapping. In Ancient Greek, the musical …
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On the Syllable Structure of English Pidgins and Creoles.
… is an optimality-theoretic investigation of syllable restructuring in the Atlantic and Pacific English-lexicon pidgins and creoles, both in their earlier stages and in the modem varieties. The theoretical framework and the methodology are presented in chapter 2. The next three chapters …
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Tohono O'odham syllable weight: Descriptive, theoretical and applied aspects
… theory and application. Tohono O'odham syllable weight is investigated within these linguistic aspects. I propose that O'odham diphthongs are categorized into two groups based on their weight: light (monomoraic) diphthongs and heavy (bimoraic) diphthongs. This is opposed to generally …
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The Role of the Phonological Syllable in English Word Recognition
Three ERP experiments examined the role of syllables during English visual word recognition. A colour congruency paradigm (Carreiras, Vergara, & Barber, 2005) was used in which disyllabic words were presented in two colours that divided each item either at the syllable boundary (congruent …
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Air Flow and Volume During Repeated Syllable and Sentence Productions
… database of midvowel flow and volume per syllable measures during the repetition of both syllables and sentences in young men and women. No difference was found between midvowel flow values of syllables produced at three and five syllables per second. Midvowel flow measures were generally …
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic
<p>This thesis examines syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic (QA), a Najdi dialect spoken in Al-Qassim region in Saudi Arabia. Syllable-related phenomena in QA have not been fully addressed and understood because QA has not received attention in the available literature on syllable structure within …
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The fifteen-syllable verse of Kostis Palamas's The King's Flute
… Palamas and specifically examines the fifteen-syllable verse of this poem, leaving aside its content and its interpretation. The study focuses on the various rhythmical and metrical devices which Palamas used in order to reshape and renew the traditional fifteen-syllable verse. It also …
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The Syllable Structure and Stress Patterns of the Maithili Language
… [I], and U in word final positions and in open syllables are phonetically realized as super lax [schwa], [i], and [u]. The author argues that while these super lax vowels are retained in the word final and in medial positions to enforce a language wide ban on trimoraic syllables, the lax …
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Phonetic and Functional Bases of Syllable Weight for Stress Assignment
The phonetic and functional analysis of syllable weight accounts for the previously unexplained asymmetry between heavy CVV and CVC syllables in their distribution: CVV counts as heavy in any position of a word, while CVC counts as heavy only in languages with phonemic vowel length synchronically …
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Tone classification of syllable -segmented Thai speech based on multilayer perceptron
… lexical information about the meaning of a syllable. Thai has five distinctive tones and each tone is well represented by a single F0 contour pattern. In general, a Thai syllable with a different tone has a different lexical meaning. Thus, to completely recognize a spoken Thai syllable, a …
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Perceptual sources for closed-syllable vowel laxing and derived environment effects
… of two challenging phenomena: closed-syllable vowel laxing (CSVL), i.e. the tendency for vowels to be lowered and centralized before word-final and preobstruent consonants, and phonologically-derived environment effects (PDEEs), i.e. patterns where a phonological process is blocked …
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Syllable "sonority" hierarchy and the stress patterns in Pulaar. A metrical approach
"""Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition... "" (Hayes, 1989). That is, distinctions are seen in terms of heavy versus light, bimoraic versus monomoraic syllables. An analysis of the metrical structure and other phonological processes of Pulaar, a member of the West Atlantic …
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