Electroglottographic and acoustic data for Catalan three-consonant clusters composed of a wordand syllable-final C1C2 sequence and an underlyingly voiced C3 in wordand syllable-initial position were collected in order to verify whether a regressive voicing assimilation process operates on all obstruents placed at the C2 and C1 sites. Data reveal the presence of low percentages of vocal fold vib...

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 The phonological structure of Turkish does not allow word-initial consonant clusters. That is, the syllable onset position borrowed vocabulary requires insertion an epenthetic high vowel. This changes by addition extra to word. In schools, all grammar teachers teach those words as if they were one words. However, situation is different phonologically since these are but two Borro...

Glottalization of coda /t, p/ is a common process in American English. This study uses acoustic measures to determine when coda glottalization occurs in the conversational speech of the Buckeye Corpus. Vowels preceding coda /t, p/ tokens for 40 speakers were analyzed using H1*–H2*, an acoustic correlate of glottal constriction. Results indicate that coda glottalization is more common before a s...

In (1a), an epenthetic vowel is inserted in a word-final cluster: /melk/ → melex. In (1b), [ ] deletes in the coda position. As shown in (1c), the interaction of the epenthesis and deletion has been traditionally analyzed in terms of the counter-bleeding order: UR /des / first undergoes the epenthesis and then the epenthesized intermediate form [des e ] undergoes -deletion, deriving the surface...

In this paper we present a novel cluster file system TH-CluFS -in distributed service environment, especially in Internet service area, and use the file system to construct a scalable web server cluster. TH-CluFS has a consistent file view across several servers connected by a high-speed local area network and out-performs the traditional distributed file systems. Due to the advantages of high-...

In earthquake source estimation, coda-derived source methods provide more stable source parameters than methods using direct waves due to the inherent averaging nature of coda waves (Mayeda and Walter, 1996; Mayeda et al., 2007). Unlike conventional direct-phase regional measurements (e.g., Pg or Lg), which take peak amplitude at the specific arrival time, the coda amplitude measurement through...

The foot is the prosodic entity typically used to explain metrical phenomena like stress assignment and pitch accentuation. This paper attempts to widen the explanatory role of feet to include not only suprasegmental effects but also segmental behaviour. Segmental properties such as static distribution patterns and dynamic alternation processes are usually explained by referring to another pros...

This paper is a preliminary phonetic exploration of aspects of the well-known Italian sandhi phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (henceforth RS), which involves the gemination of word-initial consonants under certain conditions, eg dei [k]ani ‘‘some dogs’’ but tre [kk]ani ‘‘three dogs’’. It is often assumed that RS C-gemination is regular, but there is increasing evidence that it competes w...

In Dutch, the phonological relation between the labiodental spirant approximant [ʋ], found in word-initial position, and the labial–velar semi-vowel [w], found in word-final position, has been a subject of interest for several scholars. Most of them agree that these two sounds should be regarded as allophonic variants of the phoneme /ʋ/. This assumption, however, has never been tested empirical...