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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 (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 g

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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

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Shuiskaya, Tatiana V. "SYLLABLE STRUCTURE OF WORDS IN THE SPEECH OF 3-YEAR-OLDS." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 1 (2017): 124–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2017_3_1_124_135.

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The way children acquire syllable structure of words characterizes the level of their speech development. It is assumed that 3=year=olds without any disorders do not have any difficulties with constructing syllables. The current paper describes the results of an acoustic study of word syllable structure in the speech of twenty Russian 3=year=old subjects. 75% of them demonstrated from 3 to 7 syllable structure changes. The maximum of 13,2% of the total of 53 words were characterized by those changes. There were examples of word-initial single-consonant elision, syllable elision, syllable trans

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González-Alvarez, Julio, and María-Angeles Palomar-García. "Syllable Frequency and Spoken Word Recognition." Psychological Reports 119, no. 1 (2016): 263–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294116654449.

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Research has shown that syllables play a relevant role in lexical access in Spanish, a shallow language with a transparent syllabic structure. Syllable frequency has been shown to have an inhibitory effect on visual word recognition in Spanish. However, no study has examined the syllable frequency effect on spoken word recognition. The present study tested the effect of the frequency of the first syllable on recognition of spoken Spanish words. A sample of 45 young adults (33 women, 12 men; M = 20.4, SD = 2.8; college students) performed an auditory lexical decision on 128 Spanish disyllabic w

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Khan, Geoffrey. "Remarks on syllable structure and metrical structure in Biblical Hebrew." Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 12, no. 1 (2020): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01201005.

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Abstract In the Middle Ages Biblical Hebrew was transmitted in a variety of oral reading traditions, which became textualized in systems of vocalization signs. The two most important oral traditions were the Tiberian and the Babylonian, which were represented by different vocalization sign systems. These two oral traditions had their origins in ancient Palestine. Although closely related, they exhibit several differences. These include differences in syllable and metrical structure. This paper examines how the syllable and metrical structure of the two traditions reflected by the medieval voca

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Savic, Maja, Darinka Andjelkovic, Nevena Budjevac, and der Van. "Phonological complexity and prosodic structure in assessment of Serbian phonological development." Psihologija 43, no. 2 (2010): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi1002167s.

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In this research we investigate the relevance of phonological parameters in acquisition of Serbian language. Implementation of British Test of Phonological Screeing (TOPhS, van der Lely and Harris, 1999) has revealed that phonological complexity (syllabic and metrical structure) influences accuracy in non-word repetition task and could be used in assessment of phonological development of typically developing children, as well as of children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI) (van der Lely and Harris, 1999; Gallon, Harris & van der Lely, 2007). Having in mind phonological

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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 (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

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BERG, THOMAS, and CHRISTIAN KOOPS. "Phonotactic constraints and sub-syllabic structure: A difficult relationship." Journal of Linguistics 51, no. 1 (2014): 3–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222671400022x.

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Of late, a controversy has arisen over the internal structure of Korean syllables. While there is general agreement that non-phonotactic criteria argue for left-branching, Lee & Goldrick's (2008) left-branching phonotactic analysis is contradicted by Berg & Koops's (2010) claim as to a phonotactically symmetrical syllable structure. A comparison of the methodologies of the two studies, a revisit of the previous data and a new analysis cement the conclusion that there is neither a left-branching nor a right-branching phonotactic effect in Korean syllables. An investigation of the phonot

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Pierrehumbert, Janet, and Rami Nair. "Word Games and Syllable Structure." Language and Speech 38, no. 1 (1995): 77–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002383099503800104.

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Khudoyberdiev, Khurshed A. "The Algorithms of Tajik Speech Synthesis by Syllable." ITM Web of Conferences 35 (2020): 07003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20203507003.

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This article is devoted to the development of a prototype of a computer synthesizer of Tajik speech by the text. The need for such a synthesizer is caused by the fact that its analogues for other languages not only help people with visual and speech defects, but also find more and more application in communication technology, information and reference systems. In the future, such programs will take their proper place in the broad acoustic dialogue of humans with automatic machines and robotics in various fields of human activity. The article describes the prototype of the Tajik computer synthe

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Röttger, Timo B., Ulrike Domahs, Marion Grande, and Frank Domahs. "Structural Factors Affecting the Assignment of Word Stress in German." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24, no. 1 (2012): 53–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542711000262.

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This paper aims to shed light on regularities underlying German stress assignment. The results of a pseudoword production task suggest that rhyme complexity of the final syllable is a strong predictor of main stress position in German. We also found that antepenult rhyme complexity and orthographic rhyme structure have significant effect on stress assignment. In general, the effects seem to be probabilistic rather than categorical. Our results suggest that phonological theories of German word stress need to allow for multiple probabilistic factors, including syllabic structure of all stressabl

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KAVITSKAYA, DARYA, MARIA BABYONYSHEV, THEODORE WALLS, and ELENA GRIGORENKO. "Investigating the effects of syllable complexity in Russian-speaking children with SLI." Journal of Child Language 38, no. 5 (2011): 979–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000910000413.

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ABSTRACTThis study examined the effect of number of syllables and syllable structure on repetition of pseudo-words by Russian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. One hundred and forty-four pseudo-words, varying in length and syllable complexity, were presented to two groups of children: 15 children with SLI, age range 4 ; 0 to 8 ; 8, and 15 TD children matched in age to the SLI group. The number of errors in the repetition of pseudo-words was analyzed in terms of the number of syllables and syllable complexity. The results demonstra

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Liu, Minqi. "English adaptation in Mandarin A-not-A constructions." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4, no. 1 (2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4552.

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A-not-A refers to a Mandarin reduplication construction where the underlying form /RED-pu-A/ contains a reduplication of the first syllable in A. In this study I investigate the kinds of adaptations that occur when an English word serves as the base A in code-switching speech. Since the complex onsets and most codas allowed in English are illegal in Mandarin syllables, the reduplicated part is expected to adapt to Mandarin phonotactics to some degree. I ran a production experiment where 20 native Mandarin-speakers were asked to produce A-not-A constructions with 55 mono- and multi-syllabic Eng

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Liu, Dan. "The Acquisition of English Word Stress by Mandarin EFL Learners." English Language Teaching 10, no. 12 (2017): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n12p196.

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Compared with the study of acquisition of syntax and morphology, there is a relative lack of research on the acquisition of phonology, the L2 acquisition of word stress in particular. This paper investigates the production of word stress by 70 Chinese college students in their reading aloud. Altogether 350 minutes’ recordings were collected and coded. The result shows that improper assignment of word stress most likely occurs in two-syllable words and three-syllable words and on the first syllable. The factors which account for these problems are learners’ insensitivity to syllabic structure o

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Atta, Firdos. "Word Stress system of the Saraiki language." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 11, no. 1 (2021): 129–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.11.1.129-145.

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This study presents an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of Saraiki word stress. This study presents a first exploration of word stress in the framework of OT. Words in Saraiki are mostly short; secondary stress plays no role here. Saraiki stress is quantity-sensitive, so a distinction must be made between short and long vowels, and light and heavy syllables. A metrical foot can consist of one heavy syllable, two light syllables, or one light and one heavy syllable. The Foot structure starts from right to left in prosodic words. The foot is trochaic and the last consonant in Saraiki words is extra

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Wijnen, Frank. "Woordvormanalyse Door Kinderen." Lexicon en taalverwerving 34 (January 1, 1989): 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.34.12wij.

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Early word form representations are assumed to be unanalyzed 'routines'. Around age 2 1/2, when the first 50 to 100 words have been acquired, the organization of the mental lexicon starts to change. Word form representations are segmented into their constituent linguistic substructures: syllable and phonemes. Gradually the network-like structure which is thought to capture the mature mental lexicon emerges. Peters (1983, 1985) has proposed two heuristics that may be employed by children for segmenting words, both during this 'reorganization' and afterwards, when new words are acquired and inse

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Both, Csaba Attila. "Word Structure Change in Language Contact." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 10, no. 3 (2018): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0032.

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Abstract Languages have been in contact since their existence. The Hungarian and Romanian languages have been so for at least 800 years. The present article aims at analysing the structural changes in the monosyllabic Hungarian loanwords in Romanian. After the theoretical introduction, I discuss the phonological status of the /j/ sound, which is very important in this kind of investigations. After that, I present the syllable structure types of these monosyllabic Hungarian etymons and I present, as well, the changing schemes of their structures in the borrowing. The study concludes that the mo

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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 (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 syll

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Ziegler, Wolfram, Ingrid Aichert, and Anja Staiger. "Syllable- and Rhythm-Based Approaches in the Treatment of Apraxia of Speech." Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders 20, no. 3 (2010): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/nnsld20.3.59.

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This paper presents new treatment approaches for patients with apraxia of speech (AOS), which are based on current theoretical work relating to the pathomechanism of AOS. Particularly, we focus on the question of which speech units and structural properties are involved in the error mechanism of speakers with apraxia. Based on a psycholinguistic model of spoken language production (Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999), we review data from single-word production experiments and from analyses of spontaneous speech demonstrating an impact on (a) the degree of “over-learnedness” of syllables (sylla

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Cutler, Anne, Katherine Demuth, and James M. McQueen. "Universality Versus Language-Specificity in Listening to Running Speech." Psychological Science 13, no. 3 (2002): 258–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00447.

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Recognizing spoken language involves automatic activation of multiple candidate words. The process of selection between candidates is made more efficient by inhibition of embedded words (like egg in beg) that leave a portion of the input stranded (here, b). Results from European languages suggest that this inhibition occurs when consonants are stranded but not when syllables are stranded. The reason why leftover syllables do not lead to inhibition could be that in principle they might themselves be words; in European languages, a syllable can be a word. In Sesotho (a Bantu language), however,

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Jiménez, Juan E., Eduardo García, Isabel O'Shanahan, and Estefanía Rojas. "Do Spanish Children Use the Syllable in Visual Word Recognition in Learning to Read?" Spanish journal of psychology 13, no. 1 (2010): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s113874160000367x.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Spanish children that are learning to read use the syllable unit in word reading. We used a visual version of the syllable monitoring technique (Mehler, Dommerges, Freavenfelder & Seguí, 1981). For Experiment I, we selected first grade readers at the end of the first year of reading instruction. In the Experiment II we selected second grade readers at the middle of the second year of reading instruction. Participants responded whenever the structure of the target string (e.g., bal) appeared at the beginning of a subsequently presented pr

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Sagon, Reynita R., and Rosalie M. Uchanski. "The Development of Ilocano Word Lists for Speech Audiometry." Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 21, no. 1-2 (2006): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32412/pjohns.v21i1-2.821.

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Objective: The goal of this work is the creation of word lists, in Ilocano, suitable for use in speech audiometry.  Methods: First, estimates of the distribution of speech sounds and of the most common syllable structures in Ilocano were found from a phonetic transcription analysis of nearly 3000 words obtained from three magazine articles. Second, 372 two-syllable words were rated, for commonness, by fifteen native speakers of Ilocano who currently reside in Hawai’i. Finally, various combinations of two-syllable words were made to produce 50-item lists.  Results: First

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Alhoody, Metab, and Mohammad Aljutaily. "Some Characteristics of Syllable Structure in Qassimi Arabic (QA): An Optimality Theoretic Framework." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 4 (2020): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n4p193.

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The paper investigates the syllable structures of Qassimi Arabic (QA), which is a sub-dialect of Najdi Arabic (NA) and is spoken in the north-central region of Saudi Arabia, particularly in the Qassim Region. Within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), we show how the well-formed syllable is derived from the interaction of constraints. We show how the OT captures some of the major processes for structuring the syllables of QA, such as syncope, epenthesis, and geminate. The analysis revealed that onsetless syllables are prohibited in QA. The dialect allows word-initial consonant clusters, w

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Caro Reina, Javier. "Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen." Linguistik Online 98, no. 5 (2019): 235–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.98.5939.

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This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure, phonotactic restrictions, and word-profiling processes. Following on from previous synchronic and diachronic analyses (Nübling/Schrambke 2004; Szczepaniak 2007), I will provide a detailed account of the phonological word in Old Alemannic and in modern Alemannic dialects, which include Upper-Rhine Alemannic, Swabian, and South Alemannic. It will

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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 scientifical

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SHUISKAYA, TATIANA V. "VOWEL INSERTION IN CHILD SPEECH." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 4 (2020): 182–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2020_6_4_182_189.

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The importance of word syllable structure acquisition by children can hardly be doubted. In 3-year-olds speech, there are specific pattern that, from the viewpoint of adult standards, are considered misnomers: examples of syllable elision, consonant elision and vowel insertion. It is believed that vowel insertion in adult native speakers of Russian occurs due to physiological reasons. However, according to the hypothesis, in child’s speech it is vowel phoneme that occurs between consonants and it leads to a change in the word syllable structure. The results of an acoustic study of vowel insert

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COLÉ, PASCALE, ANNIE MAGNAN, and JONATHAN GRAINGER. "Syllable-sized units in visual word recognition: Evidence from skilled and beginning readers of French." Applied Psycholinguistics 20, no. 4 (1999): 507–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716499004038.

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The experiments presented here used a visual version of the syllable monitoring technique (Mehler, Dommergues, Frauenfelder, & Segui, 1981) to investigate the role of syllabic units in beginning and adult readers. Participants responded whenever a visually presented target syllable (e.g., BA) appeared at the beginning of a subsequently presented printed word (e.g., BALANCE). The target was either a consonant–vowel (CV) or consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) structure and either did or did not correspond to the initial syllable of the target-bearing word. Skilled adult readers showed significan

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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; t

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Kiegel-Keicher, Yvonne. "Simple metathesis in loanword phonology: the Arabic-Romance language contact." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 136, no. 4 (2020): 1049–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2020-0057.

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AbstractSimple metathesis can be found in numerous Ibero-Romance arabisms compared with their Andalusi Arabic etyma. The analysis of a corpus of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan arabisms illustrates its effects on syllable structure and syllable weight. It can be shown that Arabic-Romance simple metathesis constitutes a motivated structural change that provides for typologically unmarked syllable weight relations within the word. After the resyllabification it entails the involved unstressed syllables no longer excede the stressed syllable in weight. However, it is not an obligatory, systematic

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Service, Elisabet. "The Effect of Word Length on Immediate Serial Recall Depends on Phonological Complexity, Not Articulatory Duration." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 51, no. 2 (1998): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713755759.

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Immediate recall for sequences of short words is better than for sequences of long words. This word-length effect has been thought to depend on the spoken duration of the words (Baddeley, Thomson, & Buchanan, 1975) or their phonological complexity (Caplan, Rochon, & Waters, 1992). In Finnish both vowel and consonant quantity distinguish between words. Long phonemes behave like phoneme repetitions. In Experiment 1, subjects were presented with auditory lists of three kinds of pseudowords based on Finnish phonotactics: short CVCV-structures (e.g. / tepa/), long two-syllable items with lo

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Lozano-Argüelles, Cristina, and Nuria Sagarra. "Interpreting experience enhances the use of lexical stress and syllabic structure to predict L2 word endings." Applied Psycholinguistics 42, no. 5 (2021): 1135–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716421000217.

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AbstractPrediction underlies many life’s situations including language. Monolinguals and advanced L2 learners use prosodic cues such as stress and tone in a word’s first syllable to predict the word’s suffix. To determine whether the same findings extend to words with non-morphological endings, we investigate whether Spanish monolinguals and advanced learners of Spanish with and without interpreting experience use stress (stressed, unstressed) and syllabic structure (CV, CVC) in a word’s initial syllable to predict its ending. This is crucial to understand whether associations underlying predi

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Domahs, Ulrike, Richard Wiese, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, and Matthias Schlesewsky. "The processing of German word stress: evidence for the prosodic hierarchy." Phonology 25, no. 1 (2008): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675708001383.

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The present paper explores whether the metrical foot is necessary for the description of prosodic systems. To this end, we present empirical findings on the perception of German word stress using event-related brain potentials as the dependent measure. A manipulation of the main stress position within three-syllable words revealed differential brain responses, which (a) correlated with the reorganisation of syllables into feet in stress violations, and (b) differed in strength depending on syllable weight. The experiments therefore provide evidence that the processing of word stress not only i

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Kar, Somdev, and Hubert Truckenbrodt. "Syllable structure and stratification in Bangla." Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2019): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2019-2008.

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Abstract This study attempts to analyse the permissible syllable structures and the aspiration and voicing of word-initial and word-final segments in the syllable structure of Bangla. A corpus study leads to a detailed analysis of Bangla syllable structure restrictions, relative to the three traditional strata of the Bangla lexicon, namely, Native Bangla (NB, Tadbhava), Sanskrit borrowings (SB, Tatsama and Ardha-Tatsama), and other borrowings (OB, Deshi and Bideshi), following Ito and Mester’s work on the Japanese lexicon. Complex codas are allowed only in OB. Complex onsets are ruled out in N

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U., Elizabeth, and Francis I.A. "The Syllable Structure of Tiv." International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 4, no. 1 (2021): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/ijlll-p2unambu.

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Linguistic studies reveal that every language has a particular way of combining its sounds to form words or parts of words called syllables. The paper looks at the syllable structure of the Tiv language, one of the Bantoid languages spoken mostly in the Middle Belt area of Nigeria, especially in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa and Cross River states of Nigeria. The objective of the study is to investigate the internal structure of syllables in the Tiv language in order to establish the regularities and restrictions inherent in the language. The study, therefore, aims at ascertaining the sylla

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Orzechowska, Paula, Janina Mołczanow, and Michał Jankowski. "Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English." Research in Language 17, no. 2 (2019): 167–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2019-0001.

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Abstract This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllab

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Orzechowska, Paula, Janina Mołczanow, and Michał Jankowski. "Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English." Research in Language 17, no. 2 (2019): 167–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.17.2.04.

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This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllable is to

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Guzzo, Natália Brambatti, Heather Goad, and Guilherme D. Garcia. "What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: Foot structure or tonal profile?" Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3, no. 1 (2018): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4306.

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Previous studies have argued that high vowel deletion (HVD) in Québec French is constrained by iterative iambic footing (Guzzo, Goad & Garcia 2016, Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017; see also Verluyten 1982), since it preferentially applies in even-numbered syllables from the right edge of the word. In this paper, we compare this hypothesis with an alternative hypothesis: HVD is constrained by the optionally-realized phrase-initial H tone (Jun & Fougeron 2000, Thibault & Ouellet 1996). We report on a judgement task in which two- and four-syllable nouns with HVD in the initial syllable

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Li, Yachao, Jing Jiang, Jia Yangji, and Ning Ma. "Finding Better Subwords for Tibetan Neural Machine Translation." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 20, no. 2 (2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3448216.

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Subword segmentation plays an important role in Tibetan neural machine translation (NMT). The structure of Tibetan words consists of two levels. First, words consist of a sequence of syllables, and then a syllable consists of a sequence of characters. According to this special word structure, we propose two methods for Tibetan subword segmentation, namely syllable-based and character-based methods. The former generates subwords based on the Tibetan syllables, and the latter is based on Tibetan characters. In addition, we carry out experiments with these two subword segmentation methods on low-

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Iverson, Gregory K., and Courtenay A. Kesterson. "Foot and Syllable Structure in Modern Icelandic." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 12, no. 1 (1989): 13–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500001918.

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As is well known, vowel length in Modern Icelandic is in general predictable on the basis of syllable structure such that, in polysyllabic words, stressed vowels in open syllables are long, other vowels are short; in stressed monosyllables, however, vowels are long whether the syllable is open or closed by a single consonant, and short only when the syllable is closed by a consonant cluster. In contrast to the ‘final maximalistic’ strategy of Árnason (1980) and other unlikely syllabification schemes designed to unify these two patterns, we invoke Giegerich's (1985) characterization of foot str

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Kehoe, Margaret M. "Prosodic Patterns in Children’s Multisyllabic Word Productions." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 32, no. 4 (2001): 284–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2001/025).

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This paper reviews results from a series of studies that examined the influence of metrical and segmental effects on English-speaking children’s multisyllabic word productions. Three different approaches (prosodic structure, trochaic template, and perceptual salience) that have been proposed in the literature to account for children’s prosodic patterns are presented and evaluated. An analysis of children’s truncation or syllable deletion patterns revealed the following robust findings: (a) Stressed and word-final unstressed syllables are preserved more frequently than nonfinal unstressed sylla

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Weingarten, Rüdiger. "Subsyllabic units in written word production." Written Language and Literacy 8, no. 1 (2005): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.8.1.03wei.

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In previous studies we have found that the writing of words (typing) is made up of a highly structured time course. Words are written using a course of accelerations and decelerations at certain points within the words. These points correlate highly with the syllabic word structure and also with the morphological structure. At the beginning of these subword units we find significantly higher latencies than within units. We therefore assume that written word production starts with a frame of the whole word, certain subword frames (according to the syllabic and morphological structure) and subse

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Hamada, Megumi, and Hideki Goya. "Influence of Syllable Structure on L2 Auditory Word Learning." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 44, no. 2 (2014): 141–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-014-9284-8.

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Gordon, Matthew, Carmen Jany, Carlos Nash, and Nobutaka Takara. "Syllable structure and extrametricality." Studies in Language 34, no. 1 (2010): 131–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.34.1.15gor.

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This paper proposes a functional basis for final consonant extrametricality, the asymmetric status of CVC syllables as stress-attracting in non-final position of a word but stress-rejecting in final position. A typological study of phonemic vowel length pattern in 10 languages with this final vs. non-final stress asymmetry and 30 languages in which CVC attracts stress in final position indicates a robust asymmetry between languages differing in their stress system’s treatment of final CVC. Languages that asymmetrically allow stress on non-final but not on final CVC all lack phonemic vowel leng

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Davis, Stuart. "Syllable onsets as a factor in stress rules." Phonology 5, no. 1 (1988): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700002177.

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One of the common assumptions of standard metrical phonology (Hayes 1981) is that rules of stress placement do not refer to the weight or nature of syllable onsets. This is most clearly stated in Halle & Vergnaud (1980:93): ‘in all languages known to us, stress assignment rules are sensitive to the structure of the syllable rime, but disregard completely the character of the onset’. This assumption has been attacked by both Davis (1982, 1985a, b) and Everett & Everett (1984). These researchers have pointed to a number of languages which seem to have stress-placement rules that are sens

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Ridouane, Rachid. "Syllables without vowels: phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber." Phonology 25, no. 2 (2008): 321–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675708001498.

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It has been proposed that Tashlhiyt is a language which allows any segment, including obstruents, to be a syllable nucleus. The most striking and controversial examples taken as arguments in favour of this analysis involve series of words claimed to contain only obstruents. This claim is disputed in some recent work, where it is argued that these consonant sequences contain schwas that can be syllable nuclei. This article presents arguments showing that vowelless syllables do exist in Tashlhiyt, both at the phonetic and phonological levels. Acoustic, fibrescopic and photoelectroglottographic e

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MARCHAND, YANNICK, and ROBERT I. DAMPER. "Can syllabification improve pronunciation by analogy of English?" Natural Language Engineering 13, no. 1 (2006): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324905004043.

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In spite of difficulty in defining the syllable unequivocally, and controversy over its role in theories of spoken and written language processing, the syllable is a potentially useful unit in several practical tasks which arise in computational linguistics and speech technology. For instance, syllable structure might embody valuable information for building word models in automatic speech recognition, and concatenative speech synthesis might use syllables or demisyllables as basic units. In this paper, we first present an algorithm for determining syllable boundaries in the orthographic form

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SCHEER, TOBIAS. "Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges." Journal of Linguistics 48, no. 3 (2012): 685–726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226712000205.

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San Duanmu'sSyllable Structure: The Limits of Variationraises a number of questions that are of general interest for phonological theory. Of special interest here are: the genesis and management of linearity in complex segments, the place of analogy (or paradigm uniformity) in grammar, the role of morphology in accounting for phonological patterns, the balance of static (distributional patterns) and dynamic (phonological processes) evidence for syllable structure, the role of stress in syllabification, and the import of corpus-based data for phonological analysis. In each case, Duanmu's propos

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Polo, Nuria. "Acquisition of codas in Spanish as a first language: The role of accuracy, markedness and frequency." First Language 38, no. 1 (2017): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723717724244.

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Studies on the acquisition of Spanish as a first language do not agree on the patterns and factors relevant for coda development. In order to shed light on the questions involved, a longitudinal study of coda development in Northern European Spanish was carried out to explore the relationship between accuracy, markedness and frequency. The study analysed 8517 intended codas produced by two children from age 1;7 to 2;7. The main contribution of this study comes from the analysis of substitutions. The children produced more codas and more accurate codas in stressed syllables, particularly in wor

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Mateus, Maria Helena, and Ernesto D’Andrade. "THE SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 14, no. 1 (1998): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44501998000100002.

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The goal of this paper is to discuss the internal structure of the syllable in European Portuguese and to propose an algorithm for base syllabification. Due to the analysis of consonant clusters in onset position and the occurrence of epenthetic vowels, and considering the variation of the vowels in word initial position that occupy the syllable nucleus without an onset at the phonetic level, we assume that, in European Portuguese, the syllable is always constituted by an onset and a rhyme even though one of these constituents (but not both) may be empty, that is, one of then may have no phone

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Jiang, Lansheng. "Notes on Phonetically Redundant Words." Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 2, no. 1 (2007): 171–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405478x-90000029.

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This paper presents the concept of Phonetically Redundant Words (PRW). These are words that are derived from an original word base through a change of or extension to the syllable structure, but which bear no new meaning or grammatical function. Instances of sandhi, fusion reduplication, and syllable split are given to exemplify the origin, structure, and characteristics of PRW.

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