Vowel hiatus resolution in Koine Greek

Prosodic Boundary Effects on Durations and Vowel Hiatus in Modern Greek

Research on the prosodic structure of languages has been based on processes such as durational patterns and sandhi phenomena. One of the underlying assumptions is that such processes signal, and are regulated by, the same structure. This paper is part of ongoing research on the effect of prosodic boundary strength on segmental and supra-segmental phenomena. It investigates the effect of boundar...

hiatus resolution strategies in persian

hiatus is a situation in which there is no consonant between the nuclei of two adjacent syllables. it occurs when the left syllable lacks a coda while the right one lacks an onset. hiatus occurs in underlying representation or at a level between underlying and phonetic representations. its occurrence is expected in every language, but its resolution is obligatory in languages which require syll...

The absence of topicalization around interrogatives in Koine Greek

Hiatus Resolution in Georgian1

This paper addresses the significance of rare patterns in linguistic typology. In the Georgian nominal system, vowel deletion in the context of hiatus targets low vowels regardless of position. This pattern is extremely unusual (possibly unique) both in that it targets low vowels (Gouskova 2003) and in that the position of the vowel does not play a role in determining which vowel is deleted (Ca...

Acoustic Features of Japanese Vowel-Vowel Hiatus at Prosodic Boundaries

We investigated V-V hiatus through J-ToBI labeling and listening to whole phrases to estimate degree of discontinuity and, if possible, to determine the exact boundary between two phrases. Appropriate boundaries were found in most cases as the maximum perceptual score. Using the open quotients OQ of electroglottography (EGG), pitch mark and spectrogram, the acoustic phonological feature of thes...