On the syllabic structures of Aromanian
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چکیده
In this paper we have investigated the syllabic structures found in Aromanian a Romance language spoken in the Balkans across multiple countries with important communities which spread from Greece to Romania. We have created a dictionary of syllabified words and analyzed a few general quantitative and phonological aspects of the dictionary. Furthermore, we have approached the syllabic complexities, the sonority patterns present in the syllable’s constituents and the degree in which the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) holds for this language. Based on all the information gathered we have devised an automatic syllabification algorithm which has a 99% accuracy on the words in the dictionary. In this way we hope to extend the existing phonological studies on Eastern Romance and to spread and preserve meta-linguistic information on this endangered language.
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