Coronals and compounding in Irish

Coronals and Velars: Support for Blust

The perception of coronals in Western Arrernte

This study examined perception of multiple coronal places of articulation by native listeners of Western Arrernte. Three main findings emerged. 1) Coronal nasals and laterals are as perceptually robust as coronal stops. 2) Across manners of articulation, apical alveolars are less perceptually robust than other coronals. 3) Formant transitions from a preceding vowel are necessary to correctly id...

The production of coronals in hyper- and hypospeech

Constriction place patterns in EPG registrations of Swedish [s], [þ], and [§] in phrasal as compared to isolated production is characterized by an aggregation in a small sagittal range along the middle part of the alveolar crest. This range often borders on isolated [s] but is sometimes a bit further back. We hypothesise that this aggregation is closely connected with the neutral coronal gestur...

Compounding and construction morphology

schema. That is, both the instantiation relation and the part of-relation are based on paradigmatic relationships between words in the lexicon. The morphological structure assigned to the word sneeuwwit is a projection of such paradigmatic relationships on the syntagmatic axis of word structure. One advantage of this approach to word formation is that generalizations about subpatterns can be ex...

Sign Languages and Compounding

Short abstract Compounding is one of the few sequential word formation processes found across sign languages. We examine the properties of compounds in languages in the visual-gestural modality, showing both similarities to spoken language compounds, as well as a modality-specific type of simultaneous compounding. We also explore the development of compounds in a new sign language, (Al-Sayyid B...