This paper reports the results of a phonetic experiment investigating Korean 'denasalization', specifically, on the amount of nasality as a function of different prosodic contexts. The variation in nasal energy of onset nasal consonants of 5 subjects, from regions where the tendency of ‘denasalization’ is reported to be strong (Kyunggi-do: 3 subjects) and weak (Kyungsang-do: 2 subjects) were ex...

the study of internal structure and functions of pronouns across languages can be useful for typological, theoretical as well as descriptive studies. personal pronouns in iranian languages and dialects have been investigated in the present study. the study has indicated that the pronouns are in clitic as well as free morphemes. the study also indicated that the languages and dialects benefit fr...

This paper is an in-depth analysis of constituent interrogatives in Central Yorùbá (CY) dialects, detailing the forms and strategies employed for them with a view to examining features that CY dialects as group exhibit common. Primary secondary data were collected subjected syntactic analysis. adopts split CP hypothesis Noam Chomsky’s minimalist program (MP) generative grammar. use question nou...

The Arabic language is a collection of multiple variants, among which Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) has a special status as the formal written standard language of the media, culture and education across the Arab world. The other variants are informal spoken dialects that are the media of communication for daily life. Arabic dialects differ substantially from MSA and each other in terms of phono...