The distribution of geminate obstruents in Japanese loanwords appears very complex. Some consonants are more prone to gemination than others, on the one hand, and one and the same consonant is more likely to geminate in some phonological contexts than in others, on the other hand. This paper tackles these problems by considering the relationship between consonant gemination in native words and ...

this research aims to explore the observance of syllable contact law (scl) in persian simple words. to achieve this aim, 4661 contacts were extracted from 9553 simple polysyllabic words. results show that in 45% of the syllable boundaries the sonority drops from the coda of the first syllable to the onset of the next one. also in 68% of the consonant contacts in pure persian words scl is observ...

The present study aims to explore how phonological, morphological and prosodic features of an utterance affect perception of English codas by Mandarin listeners. A phoneme detection task was conducted with the word-final target phoneme /s/ appearing utterance-medially or finally in various phonological (consonant cluster vs. singleton) and morphological (plural morpheme vs. coda of a stem word)...

We are developing a text to speech synthesis system for the German language, which has the sametype of speech elements in both, the linguistic-phonetic transcription and the phonemization Ievei, namely 'clusters'. They are defined as sequences of graphemes or phonemes of the same type (vowel or consonant clusters). Compared to other speech elements (e.g. diphones or demisyllables), the number o...

PURPOSE This study provides a comprehensive examination of substitutions that occur at Greenlee's 3rd stage of cluster development (M. Greenlee, 1974). At this stage of cluster acquisition, children are able to produce the correct number of consonants but with 1 or more of these consonants being substituted for another. METHOD Participants were 11 typically developing children ages 1;5-2;7 (y...

In this paper we present a model of abstract phonological representations in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We report results from a new non-word repetition test, the Test Of Phonological Structure (TOPhS, van der Lely & Harris, 1999), which systematically varies syllabic complexity. G-SLI children have difficulty repeating non-words containing consonant cluster...

1. Introduction The three nominal paradigms in (1) illustrate the fundamental problem posed by Slavic alternating vowels, called yers. In (1b) a full vowel appears throughout the inflectional paradigm; the stem is invariant. In (1c) the stem is also invariant and ends in a consonant cluster regardless of the following inflectional morphology. The paradigm in (1a) contains the yer vowel (underli...

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...

Received Nov 29, 2017 Revised Jan 27, 2018 Accepted Feb 19, 2018 Clustering is used for prolonging the network lifetime in WSN. It groups sensor nodes into different groups and selects a single node as a cluster head (CH) for all the groups. CHS collect the data from consonant clusters and forward the data to base station. In this paper, we proposed path optimization algorithm in Wireless Senso...

This study aims to quantify the relative contributions of phonetic categories and acoustic detail on phonotactically induced perceptual vowel epenthesis in Japanese listeners. A vowel identification task tested whether a vowel was perceived within illegal consonant clusters and, if so, which vowel was heard. Cross-spliced stimuli were used in which vowel coarticulation present in the cluster di...