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Verma, Diksha. "THE SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN NAGPURI (SADRI)." Journal of English Language and Literature 09, no. 03 (2022): 01–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9301.

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With the aid of certain specific instances, this study aims to offer a quick overview of the syllable structure in Nagpuri (Sadri). There is also a small remark about Nagpuri (Sadri). This language belongs to the Indo-Aryan family, according to Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. The description in this paper is based on the background research limited to fieldwork in the districts of Ranchi, Palamu, Lohardaga (where the language is predominantly spoken). There are also some books, essays, articles and thesis accessible in the language. Around 5,108,691 people who were native speakers of Nagpuri (Sadri) were counted in the 2011 Census. The purpose of this study is to explore the syllabic structures of Nagpuri (Sadri). The Nagpuri (Sadri) language has a hexasyllabic word structure which is further divided into two sorts of syllables: open syllables and close syllables.
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Galieva, Alfiya, and Zhanna Vavilova. "Initial and Final Syllables in Tatar- from Phonotactics to Morphology." Glottometrics, no. 50 (May 1, 2021): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.53482/2021_50_388.

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The paper proposes a methodology for analyzing the syllabic structure of Tatar words using fiction text data. Syllable construction rules are unique for each language as they are determined by the laws that govern its specific internal structure. However, the issue of the syllable finds a rather superficial description in Tatar grammars. Thus, possible correlations of the syllable structure with morphological features of the language will be examined in this paper. We analyze the distribution of syllable types in Tatar texts and represent their ranked frequencies and theoretical values fitted by means of the Zipf Mandelbrot distribution. The main part of the study is devoted to inquiry into the structure of initial and final syllables. We proceed from the hypothesis that distributions of syllable structures in word-initial and word-final positions should be marked by statistically important differences due to discriminative structural features of stems and affixal chains. The study is based on a selection of obstruent and sonorant consonants. To evaluate statistical significance of these differences, the well-known chi square test is applied.
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Kaidarova, G., and Zh Suleimenova. "STUDYING THE CATEGORY OF THE SYLLABLE IN THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 73, no. 3 (July 15, 2020): 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-3.1728-7804.14.

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The article considers one of the most important issues of vowel harmony of the syllable in the Kazakh and Turkic languages. Actual problems of studying the phonetic structure of the Kazakh language consist mainly in determining the types of syllabic structures and their sound composition. Although the syllable has a special place in the structure of the language, its articulatory nature is poorly understood. Therefore, it should be noted that the solution to the problem of syllables, as one of the language units, lies in the issues of articulation. Researchers have a common opinion about the syllable problem in linguistics, but there is much debate about the definition of syllable types in the Kazakh language. The phonetic and phonological nature of the syllable in the Kazakh language, the function of the syllable in the language and the problems of the syllable have not yet been examined in detail. Based on the research of A. Zhunusbek, M.Isaev, S. Myrzabekov, an analysis of the basic ideas about the nature of the syllable and their limitations is made. The opinions of scientists were studied on the typological common feature of the Kazakh syllable, uniting related languages, and the typological distinctive feature that distinguishes unrelated languages.
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Sinha, Rajkumari Monimala. "SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN BISHNUPRIYA MANIPUR." Journal of English Language and Literature 09, no. 01 (2022): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9109.

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The key purpose of this paper is to investigate the phonological aspect of syllable structure in Bishnupriya Manipuri. The language is spoken in the North-East Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Manipur, and Meghalaya, as well as in the neighbouring country Bangladesh. It is a member of the Eastern form of Indo-Aryan language family. According to India’s 2011 census report, the total population of Bishnupriya speakers is 79,646. The research area focuses on Bishnupriya speakers in the state of Assam. When it comes to nomenclature, the language is surrounded by a lot of controversy. Some people refer to it as Bishnupuriya, while others refer to it as Bishnupriya Manipuri or just Bishnupriya. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently published a list of endangered languages, and Bishnupriya is listed as vulnerable on that list. The language doesn’t have a script of its own, so it uses the Bengali script. Bishnupriya's syllabic structure is V, VV, VC, VCV, VVC, CVC, CV, CVV, and so on. The different types of Bishnupriya syllables are: (i) Mono-Syllabic, (ii) DiSyllabic, (iii) Tri-Syllabic, (iv) Tetra-Syllabic, (v) Penta-Syllabic and (vi) HexaSyllabic.
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Jakobsen, Per. "Syllable structure." Juznoslovenski filolog, no. 64 (2008): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jfi0864135j.

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In traditional structuralist understanding, language is a system of signs i.e. an inseparable unity of content and expression. According to glossematic linguistic theory, the dichotomy of form and substance in the content has its parallel in the expression. The present paper shows that in one language certain consonant clusters within the syllable are allowed, in other languages they are not. The phonotactic structure, i.e. the rules of forming syllables decide the forming of new words and identify the language at the same time. This fundamental syllable structure shows that it is scientifically untenable to maintain that the Serbo-Croatian language has split up in several new languages. .
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Kliukienė, Regina. "Vietovardžių apibendrintų skiemens modelių statistinė analizė." Lietuvių kalba, no. 1 (December 27, 2007): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2007.22898.

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The article deals with the syllable structure of toponyms and with the general regularities of the syllable phonotactics. The experiment has been carried out using the original software SKIEMUO. PAS. (the programming language Turbo Pascal. 7), developed by A. Girdenis. The results obtained can be summarised as follows: toponyms account for 22 generalised structures; the CV type syllable structure is the most productive; vowel syllables prevail; open covered asymmetrical syllables are more common than others; polynomial consonant clusters in toponyms are rare; toponyms are polysyllabic words; their average length is 3.128 syllables.
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Asherov, Daniel, and Outi Bat-El. "Syllable structure and complex onsets in Modern Hebrew." Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 11, no. 1 (June 12, 2019): 69–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01101007.

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Abstract Modern Hebrew allows for a diverse variety of syllable structures, allowing syllables with codas, onsetless syllables, and complex syllable margins. Syllables with a complex onset are found in word initial position, mostly in nouns, and syllables with a complex coda are less common. In this paper, we provide the distribution of syllable types in Modern Hebrew, noting differences between verbs and nouns, native words and loanwords, as well as differences among positions within the word. Special attention is given to word initial complex onsets, with details regarding the restrictions governing consonant combinations.
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Suhery, Dedy, Happy Sri Rezeki Purba, Mohammad Hamid Raza, and Khairun Nisah. "A Phonological Property of Syllable Structure and Economy in Urdu: An OT Account." Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences 4, no. 3 (May 18, 2019): 80–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/apss.v4i3.805.

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Abstract This paper contains the phonological properties of the syllable structures and the economical procedures of the words in the Urdu language. The paper determines the behavior of certain segments that attach to its own neighboring words and elaborates the economy of the syllable structure of tokens in a particular language. In Urdu, there are various types of segmental processes in terms of addition or deletion of phonemes that affects to root and alters the entire physical mechanism structure of words. The objectives of this paper are to know the exact economic conditions of syllable structures in the words after the addition or elision of segments in the Urdu language. All the process of conflicts between the segments will manipulate by the help of constraint rankings in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993). The general purpose of this paper is to reveal the whole criteria of implications of principles of Optimality theory and explore the actual framework of syllables with their marginal and obligatory components. The researcher governs the phonological property of consonant clusters with the help of faithfulness constraints and markedness constraints. The architecture of root word completely varies from the artificial formulation of other words, but after the imposition of constraints, we reveal the concrete fact of linguistic items in a specific language. The groundwork of this paper leads to the systematic phenomena of epenthesis and elimination of vowels or consonants with the tenets of OT. In this study, the researcher conveys the representations of consonant clusters and how the adjacent consonants parse by the effect of the extraneous segment in the syllable structure of words. The researcher considers the typology of the syllable structure of words and the phonological observations of linguistic features. This paper deals with the gradient property of segments that alters the framework of underlying form and affected by some other features at the surface form. The generalization of each step of the syllable structure of words should be related to the positional variation of input and output candidates. The conflicts between input and output candidates to become the winner as an optimal candidate can be solved only on the presence of constraint rankings that are evolving in the Optimality Theory. The central idea of this paper delineated the reflection of surface forms that create conflicts between other candidates, solve only through the use of constraints of Optimality Theory. A surface form may be optimal in the sense of least serious violations of a set of violable constraints in a language hierarchy of constraints. It is considered that syllable structure with the phonological and phonetic representation of forms is the major ingredient generalization of the structure of words in a particular language. It is a crucial aspect of a sequence of segments to organize in a well-formed structure after the intervention of vowels and consonants because syllable governs the account of epenthesis and elimination process. In the pattern of sequence of segments in the syllables, there is the process of epenthesis and deletion of phonemes that creates a new wave of segmental processes. This paper determines the syllabic well-formedness turn out of instantiation that refers to the conflicts between faithfulness and well-formedness structure of words regarding the syllables. The range of syllables and the economic property of words in the individual languages rise by the interactions of well-formedness and faithfulness constraints. The basic provision of this paper is to know the precise nature of the typology of the syllable structure in the words and explores how OT captures the well-formedness constraints of input and output candidates. Our whole discussion in this paper will draw on the typological representation of Optimality Theory and the logical results of Prince and Smolensky (1993) that are transposed into a correspondence format. After the analysis of the structural typology of syllables and epenthesis in the Urdu language, we will develop the factorial typology of syllabic well-formedness and faithfulness constraints in the words. We will elaborate on the major factors of constraints and epenthesis at the level of cross-linguistic properties of a particular language. In this study, we will learn how a range of phonological factors of syllable structures triggered by the markedness constraints that is depending on the formal features of faithfulness constraints. It is investigated that unity and diversity at the level of syllable structure are oriented by OT due to the interaction between deep and surface forms to mark the constraints in various repair strategies. It is the process of relating the ranking of different faithfulness constraints with the result of the typological observation of candidates. This paper determines that the factorial typology of the syllable structure of words is based on the Correspondence Theory (McCarthy and Prince 1995) that is a sub-theory of faithfulness constraints allowing a limited set of structural changes such as; addition, deletion, insertion, fusion, featural changes, etc. The central goal of this paper is to shed light on the core behavior of OT principles that are applied to the syllables of the words to find out the exact tokens of a particular language. It is examined that the universality of constraint rankings is sketched by the application of linguistic theory with the notions of ‘possible grammatical processes' and possible interactions of processes'. Some experts provided the values of syllable structures with the tenets of OT as the unmarked value for open or closed syllables. It is a type of assumption that some languages may or may not be open syllables (CV) and closed syllables (VC), while the notion of universality represents all aspects of syllables in all existing languages. This paper reveals that the notion of markedness constraints and faithfulness constraints is not only relevant to the sound system but also proposes to the syllable structure of words and their economy in a particular language. In addition to that, I also apply some better-known arguments originally adduce in support of constraint rankings. Keywords: Optimality Theory; Syllable Structure; Economy; Segmental Processes; Syllable Typology
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Kamran, Umaima, Saira Maqbool, and Lubna Umar. "Syllable Structure of Pakistani English in Phonological Theory." Volume V Issue I V, no. I (March 30, 2020): 300–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(v-i).31.

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This article describes the syllable of Pakistani English (PE. It compares the syllable of PE with British English, in the light of concepts of syllabic (Chomsky and Halle, 1968), syllabification, template, syllable pattern, model of syllable structure, phonotactics and syllable weight. In the end, the following differences in syllabic phonology of PE and British English are summarized: In phonotactic constraints, one difference is found that is in the syllable of PE cluster of three consonants i.e. /s/, /p or t or k/, /l or r/ is allowed only in monosyllabic words, whereas word internally this cluster is not permissible. So, [ek.sklIUd] becomes [eks.klIUd] in PE; the weight of the syllable in PE is not only based on the quality of vowel but also the quality of consonant; in PE every syllable must contain vowel as a nucleus.
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Shaw, Jason, Adamantios I. Gafos, Philip Hoole, and Chakir Zeroual. "Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic: evidence from patterns of temporal stability in articulation." Phonology 26, no. 1 (May 2009): 187–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675709001754.

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AbstractCompeting proposals on the syllabification of initial consonants in Moroccan Arabic are evaluated using a combination of experimental and modelling techniques. The proposed model interprets an input syllable structure as a set of articulatory landmarks coordinated in time. This enables the simulation of temporal patterns associated with the input syllable structure under different noise conditions. Patterns of stability between landmarks simulated by the model are matched to patterns in data collected with Electromagnetic Articulometry experiments. The results implicate a heterosyllabic parse of initial clusters so that strings like /sbu/ comprise two syllables, [s.bu]. Beyond this specific result for Moroccan Arabic, the model reveals the range of validity of certain stability-based indexes of syllable structure and generates predictions that allow evaluation of a syllabic parse even when stability-based heuristics break down. Overall, the paper provides support for the broad hypothesis that syllable structure is reflected in patterns of temporal stability and contributes analytical tools to evaluate competing theories on the basis of these patterns.
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Paradis, Johanne Catherine. "The syllable structure of Japanese." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28262.

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The question of how to represent prosodic structure is of current theoretical interest in three dimensional phonology. Two current theories/models of representation are the onset/rime model (Kaye and Lowenstamm 1982, Kaye Lowenstamm and Vergnaud 1987 and Levin 1985) and the mora model (Hyman 1985, McCarthy and Prince 1986 and Hayes 1988). This thesis consists of a detailed investigation of the descriptive adequacy of these two theories for the Japanese language. Japanese can be considered an archetypal mora language since in the indigenous linguistic tradition it is analysed into moras. The version of each model which I am adopting is explicitly stated in a set of universal syllabification rules. This syllabification algorithm is compatible with the following assumptions: (1) a. No predictable prosodic structure is present in the underlying representation. The distribution of glides in most cases is predictable. b. Prosodic structure is built by rule and is erected around a syllabic peak which is determined by the relative sonority of segments and not by a feature [syllabic]. Furthermore, the version of the onset/rime model I propose is a paramaterized model where the unmarked setting does not include a nucleus constituent. This onset/rime model is designed to account for weight distinctions as well as the mora theory. Sample structures from both theories are given below. (2) [Diagram Omitted] A syllabification algorithm for Japanese is adapted from the general algorithm and fitted into a model of the lexical phonology of Japanese. It is shown that Japanese prosodic structure can be generated by rule, in either model, with no underlying distinctions between glides and high vowels, and with no feature [syllabic]. Therefore, it is concluded that both the onset/rime model and the mora model are adequate for describing the Japanese language. This conclusion crucially depends on the parameterization within the onset/rime model. Because Japanese is not the only language which employs the weight distinctions a Type I model represents, the parameterization is necessary for the onset/rime model to remain equal in descriptive power with the mora model.
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LeSourd, Philip S. "Accent and syllable structure in Passamaquoddy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14451.

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LeSourd, Philip S. "Accent and syllable structure in Passamaquoddy /." New York ; London : Garland, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb374027980.

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Hwaidi, Tamader. "Syllable structure and syllabification in Al'ain Libyan Arabic." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3271.

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The variety of Arabic under investigation is one of the dialects spoken in a town on the Western Mountain (Nafuusa Mountain) in Libya. Its phonological characteristics are clearly different from what Harrama (1993) called the “Al-Jabal dialect,” which the inhabitants of the Western Mountain claim to speak. The current study is concerned with a variety spoken in the town of Riyayna (Or Alriyayna); mainly, Al’ain (henceforth identified as ALA). The objective of this thesis is to contribute a description of the phonology of a previously unexamined dialect, under a moraic approach. This approach has been adopted as the prominent role of the mora that has been established in literature by accounting for various phonological phenomena, such as vowel epenthesis (Itô, 1989) and compensatory lengthening (Hayes, 1989) (see Watson 2002). Thus, it is claimed for example, that the loss of the glottal stop in ALA is repaired by compensatory lengthening in words, such as: /biːr/ ~ /bɪʔr/, /raːs/ ~ /rʌʔs/, /juːmɪn/ ~ /joʔmɪn/ to satisfy the minimal moraicity requirement, or by gemination: /mɪjjah ~ mɪʔah/, /rɪjjah/ ~ /rɪʔah/ to satisfy the restriction of vowel-initial syllables, utterance-internally. Although, the main aim of the thesis is to examine the syllable inventories and syllabification process in ALA, focus is placed on initial consonant clusters that are claimed to exist in a cluster-resistant dialect, where it is argued that such clusters strictly occur in certain environments. Emphatics and emphatic allophones are also phonologically investigated claiming that, in addition to the four emphatic consonants, emphatic vowels (/ʌ/ and /ɑː/ in ALA) also exist in the dialect and similarly cause emphasis spread. Vowel-initial syllables is another issue whose existence in ALA is asserted in this study demonstrating that although they might surface with a glottal-stop-like gesture, they should still be treated as underlying onsetless syllables because their behaviour is different from syllables that underlyingly begin with a glottal stop. Finally, stress assignment procedures in ALA are interesting in following many North African dialects by ignoring, in many cases, syllable weight and having a tendency to stress final syllables. This is also expressed in the study.
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Avram, Andrei A. "On the syllable structure of English pidgins and creoles." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423559.

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Coutsougera, Photini. "The semivowel and its reflexes in Cypriot Greek." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252267.

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Popescu, Anisia. "Temporal organization of liquid consonants in complex syllables : implications for a dynamic articulatory model of the syllable." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCC068.

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Cette thèse est une étude du comportement spécifique des consonnes liquides en position coda à la fois du point de vue de la production et de la représentation phonologique. L’étude combine deux ensembles de résultats de la littérature dans le but d’expliquer pourquoi les liquides sont une classe de consonnes à part. D’un point de vue de la production, les consonnes liquides en position coda en anglais présentent des patrons d’organisation temporelle spécifiques à la position attaque. D’un point de vue de la représentation phonologique, il a été montré qu’en anglais, les intuitions des locuteurs natifs sur le nombre de syllabes de mots,traditionnellement monosyllabiques, comportant une voyelle longue suivie par une liquide,sont variables. Une description unifiée, de ces deux résultats, intégrant à la fois des données quantitatives et qualitatives est proposée. La proposition principale comporte deux aspects.Premièrement, je postule que les deux résultats, présentés séparément dans la littérature,doivent être considérés comme étant liés/pris ensemble. Le comportement atypique des consonnes liquides observés à la fois dans la production et la représentation peut être expliqué par la présence d’un double geste articulatoire (un geste vocalique et un geste consonantique)et en particulier par la coordination temporelle de ces deux gestes à l’intérieur de la rime.Deuxièmement, je postule que la composition gestuelle et la coordination temporelle des consonnes liquides prédisent le comportement des consonnes liquides à travers les langues.Ces hypothèses sont vérifiées et confirmée par des expériences de production et de jugements sur le nombre de syllabes dans plusieurs langues (anglais, roumain, russe et allemand). Basée sur les résultats expérimentaux, une modélisation pour les patrons de coordination observés en anglais est proposée. Les résultats montrent que c’est le geste vocalique est articulé avant le geste consonantique, ce qui détermine le comportement atypique observé pour les consonnes liquides en coda. L’articulation en premier du geste vocalique a deux conséquences importantes. Premièrement, cela donne lieu à une séquence de deux gestes vocaliques (le geste vocalique du noyau suivi par le geste vocalique de la liquide), créant un noyau complexe, qui entraine la création d’une structure de coordination compétitive à l’intérieur de la rime. Cette structure de coordination compétitive explique le comportement hors-norme des consonnes liquides en position coda. Deuxièmement, l’articulation en premier du geste vocalique rajoute des unités de poids syllabique à la structure métrique de mots monosyllabiques, ce qui explique la variabilité observée parmi les jugements du nombre de syllabes des locuteurs natifs
This dissertation investigates the behavior of coda liquid consonants from both a production and a representational standpoint. The goal is to combine two different sets of results from the literature in order to provide a clearer image on why liquids are a special class of consonants. From a production standpoint, coda liquids exhibit coordination patterns reserved for onsets. From a representation standpoint, native speakers attribute variable syllable count judgments to monosyllabic words involving a tense vowel/diphthong followed by a liquid. A unified account of liquids consonants integrating both quantitative and qualitative elements is provided.The main claim of this dissertation is two fold. First, we claim that the two results, presented separately in the literature must be considered and interpreted together. We propose that they are linked. The atypical patterns observed in the production and the representation of coda liquids stem from the presence of two gestures (one vocalic and one consonantal gesture) in the production of coda liquids, and more importantly from their relative timing with respect to other gestures in the syllable rime. Second we state that the gestural composition and the timing of liquid gestures predict liquid coda behavior cross-linguistically. These claims are tested and confirmed by cross-linguistic production and parallel production-syllable- countjudgment experiments. Furthermore, a gestural model, supported by simulations, is proposed for American English. Results show that the atypical timing pattern observed in syllables with liquid codas in American English is linked to the earlier occurrence of the vocalic gesture involved in the production of the coda liquids. This earlier occurrence of the vocalic gesture in the liquid following the vowel nucleus has two important consequences. First, it brings the liquid closer to the vowel nucleus, creating a complex nucleus, and triggering a specific competitive coordinative structure in rimes. This competitive coordinative pattern can explain the atypical temporal patterns observed for coda liquids. Second, the earlier occurrence of the vocalic gesture relative to the consonantal gesture adds weight to the metrical structure of monosyllabic words with tense vowels/diphthong nuclei followed by a liquid coda, explaining the variability in native speakers’ syllable count judgments
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Parrondo, Rodriguez Ana E. "The L2 acquisition of syllable structure and stress in Spanish." Thesis, Online version, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.287536.

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Hartley, Tom. "The role of syllable structure in verbal short-term memory." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317531/.

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Remembering the sound of a new word when it is first encountered is an important skill which plays a critical role in the development of vocabulary (Gathercole & Baddeley, 1989), yet the mechanisms underlying this form of verbal short-term memory are not well understood. Errors in the repetition and serial recall of nonwords indicate that structural properties of the syllable are represented in short-term memory, but existing accounts of serial learning and recall do not incorporate any representation of linguistic structure. Models of speech production implicate syllable structure in the representation of phonological form, but do not explain how such representations are acquired. This thesis draws together theories of speech production and serial memory to develop a computational model of nonword repetition based on the novel idea that short-term memory for the serial order of a sequence of speech sounds is constrained by a syllabic template. The results of simulations using the model are presented and compared with experimental findings concerning short-term memory for nonwords. The interaction of short- and long-term phonological memory systems and the aquisition of vocabulary are discussed in terms of the model. The model is evaluated in comparison with other contemporary theories.
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Cross, Naomi. "Bilinguals' and second language learners' knowledge of Japanese syllable structure." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3835/.

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The acquisition of second language phonology has been commanding researchers' attention in recent years. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to this area with a study on Japanese as a second language. The thesis explores both the development of phonological competence by post-puberty second language learners and the end state of pre-puberty bilingual acquisition. Reviewing the literature on the theoretical aspects of mora, syllables and syllable structure, we see that the mora is distinctive and plays vital role in Japanese phonology. We next look at the acquisition theories proposed in recent years, and adopt a Universal Grammar-based approach. Comparing first, bilingual and second language acquisition, three research hypotheses are presented: 1) the Mora Assignment Hypothesis, 2) L2 phonological Acquisition and Age Onset Hypothesis, and the 3) Quality and Quantity of Input Hypothesis. To test these hypotheses, a study was designed involving 24 bilingual children and adults, and 94 adult L2 learners of Japanese at varying levels of proficiency. The results provide evidence to support all three research hypotheses. First the data show that the both English-dominant bilinguals and second language learners at all levels deleted morae and all but the beginning second language learners added morae in oral and written production tasks, indicating non-native competence with respect to morae. In addition, learners attempt to preserve the overall mora count. Since English is not a mora sensitive language, the mora conservation exhibited here is from their Japanese. The learners, including English-dominant bilinguals, first become sensitive to the mora and only at a later stage assign segments to the correct mora slot. The difference in performance between English-dominant bilinguals and Japanese-dominant bilinguals was such that by the age of eight, those who had spent more years in Japan demonstrated native phonological competence, whereas the English-dominant bilinguals' performance pointed to non-native competence. With respect to the second and third hypotheses, results from the bilinguals indicate that in addition to age of onset, the amount of exposure to a second language must be taken into account as a factor influencing ultimate attainment. The study also reveals strong influence of literacy in both oral and written production of Japanese.
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Guffey, Karen. Spanish syllable structure. Lanham: University Press of America, 2002.

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Syllable structure and syllable-related processes in German. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1992.

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Sudanese Arabic: Phonematics and syllable structure. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007.

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Accent and syllable structure in Passamaquoddy. New York: Garland, 1993.

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Duanmu, San. Syllable structure: The limits of variation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Syllable structure: The limits of variation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Giegerich, Heinz J. Syllable structure and lexical derivation in German. Bloomington, Ind. (720 E. Atwater, Bloomington 47401-3634): Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1989.

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Giegerich, Heinz J. Syllable structure and lexical derivation in German. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1989.

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Murray, Robert W. Phonological strength and early Germanic syllable structure. München: W. Fink, 1988.

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Syllable structure of Bangla: An optimality-theoretic approach. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

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Colina, Sonia. "Syllable Structure." In The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, 133–51. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118228098.ch7.

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Silva-Villar, Luis. "French syllable structure." In Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages, 229. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.133.19sil.

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Cardoso, Walcir. "English syllable structure." In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation, 122–36. First edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315145006-8.

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Duanmu, San. "Syllable Structure and Stress." In The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, 422–42. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118584552.ch16.

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Lappe, Sabine. "Constraint Interaction: Syllable Structure." In English Prosodic Morphology, 207–40. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6006-9_9.

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Stark, Heinz Karl, and Jacqueline A. Stark. "Syllable Structure in Wernicke’s Aphasia." In Springer Series in Neuropsychology, 213–34. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8969-9_13.

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Loporcaro, Michele. "Syllable Structure and Sonority Sequencing." In Romance Linguistics, 155. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.160.13lop.

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Colina, Sonia. "Phonotactic constraints on syllable structure." In The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology, 131–44. London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge Spanish language handbooks: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315228112-7.

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Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan. "Epenthesis, Gemination, and Syllable Structure." In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, 167. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.72.10abu.

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Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier. "Sonority scales and syllable structure." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 447–69. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.99.18gut.

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Conference papers on the topic "Syllable structure"

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Ivanova, Aryuna. "SYLLABLE TYPE AND WORD SYLLABIC STRUCTURE IN TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018h/31/s10.054.

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Botinis, Antonis, Anastasia Iliadi, Michael Liontos, and Elina Nirgianaki. "Stress and syllable structure durations in Greek." In 5th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2012/05/0007/000213.

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Ono, Shigeru. "Syllable structure parsing for continuous speech recognition." In First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1990). ISCA: ISCA, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/icslp.1990-68.

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Ono, S. "Syllable structure parsing for continuous speech recognition." In [Proceedings] ICASSP 91: 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp.1991.150463.

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Juan, Sarah F. S., Vyonne Edwin, Chai Yeen Cheong, Jun Choi Lee, and Alvin W. Yeo. "Adopting Malay Syllable Structure for Syllable Based Speech Synthesizer for Iban and Bidayuh Languages." In 2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ialp.2011.21.

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Hamdi, Rym, Salem Ghazali, and Melissa Barkat-Defradas. "Syllable structure in spoken Arabic: a comparative investigation." In Interspeech 2005. ISCA: ISCA, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2005-710.

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Goldwater, Sharon, and Mark Johnson. "Representational bias in unsupervised learning of syllable structure." In the Ninth Conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1706543.1706564.

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Otake, Takashi, and Kiyoko Yoneyama. "A moraic nasal and a syllable structure in Japanese." In 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1994). ISCA: ISCA, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/icslp.1994-371.

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Berkling, Kay, Marc A. Zissman, Julie Vonwiller, and Christopher Cleirigh. "Improving accent identification through knowledge of English syllable structure." In 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998). ISCA: ISCA, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/icslp.1998-202.

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Chapakiya, Suraiya. "Syllable Structure of Patani Malay Dialect: An Analysis Using Autosegmental Theory." In International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201017.154.

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