Palatalization in educated Cairene Arabic

Optimality Theoretic Representation of Stress in Cairene Arabic

Stress pattern of Cairene Arabic (CA) has played a major role in the development of stress placement theory. Syllable weight plays a role, however, the weight to stress principle does not always apply. Bimoracity of a foot is very important and is largely addressed in the literature. Stress in CA is described in the literature as Moraic Trochee, but primary stress is on one of the three leftmos...

Palatalization and Umlaut in Korean

Contrast Dispersion and Russian Palatalization

Her mouth will be rent to the ears by the fantastic, impossible sound " Y " .

The role of predictability and structure in word stress processing: an ERP study on Cairene Arabic and a cross-linguistic comparison

This article presents neurolinguistic data on word stress perception in Cairene Arabic, in comparison to previous results on German and Turkish. The main goal is to investigate how central properties of stress systems such as predictability of stress and metrical structure are reflected in the prosodic processing of words. Cairene Arabic is a language with a regular foot-based word stress syste...

Substantive Bias and Velar Palatalization

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance functions as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are provided highly impoverished evide...