This paper examines the status of language-specific systematic detail in the realisation of phonology and proposes the formalisation of this detail as a set of phonetic motifs. It is argued that such motifs form a key component of phonological (linguistic) knowledge and may shape the language-specific emergence of phonological structure, as illustrated by a case study of consonant gemination. I...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...

Transitive softening in Russian is a type of consonant mutation resulting from an underlying [CjV] cluster. There exist two closed classes verbs where it occurs the present tense absence clear source for glide: five with thematic suffix ‑o‑, which can be illustrated by verb kolótʲ ‘to stab’, and some 100 ‑a‑, pisátʲ write’. To explain how [o] [a] end up as glides, I propose that vowels question...

This study explored nonword repetition (NWR) and nonword decoding in normal-hearing (NH) children and in children with bilateral cochlear implants (CI). Participants were 11 children, with CI, 5:0-7:11 years (M = 6.5 years), and 11 NH children, individually age-matched to the children with CI. This study fills an important gap in research, since it thoroughly describes detailed aspects of NWR a...

In studies of production and second language acquisition, it is typically assumed that when speakers produce a vowel between the consonants in a sequence that is phonotactically illegal in the native langauge, it is a result of the phonological epenthesis of a vowel (e.g. Tarone 1987, Broselow and Finer 1991, Hancin-Bhatt and Bhatt 1998, Davidson, Jusczyk and Smolensky 2003). For example, Taron...

This study is to examine if typological universals built upon primary languages are applicable to interlanguage data in SLA. Implicational universal is considered the classic example of a typological universal by Croft (2003). Thus, the Interlanguage Structural Conformity Hypothesis, which consists of two implicational universals proposed by Eckman (1991), were tested against data from an inter...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether the Simple Syllable Structure (SSS) proposed by Duanmu (1990:[2]) is true of English onsets or not. If the SSS holds for English onset, English onglides should be secondary articulations on the onset consonant rather than separate sounds. We will test this by measuring the duration of the initial consonant –glide combination, to determine whether it ...

An EPG (electro-palatographic) corpus of Iwaidja consonant sequences was examined to investigate global consonant timing patterns and the extent of coarticulation and coproduction in nasal+stop and lateral+stop clusters. As observed in other Australian languages (e.g. Warlpiri), there was limited anticipatory coarticulation in certain heterorganic sequences and evidence of coarticulatory resist...