in persian, the only syllable type with consonant clusters is cvcc, where its coda can be filled with two consonants. the present article attempts to find whether these two consonant conform the sonority sequencing principle or not. for this reason, the persian words with cvcc syllable type are gathered from persian dictionaries and are classified based on the vowel filling the nucleus of the s...

A word-final consonant is standardly assumed to occupy a syllable coda. An alternative is to treat it as the onset of a syllable containing a phonetically unexpressed nucleus. The final-onset analysis is shown to out-perform the final-coda analysis on a range of phonological phenomena, including syllable typology, stress, vowel length, and consonant phonotactics. A constraint-based implementati...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the articulatory mechanisms underlying incremental vowel shortening in German. Five speakers were recorded reading sentences with target words that contained either simplex (one consonant) or complex (two consonants) onsets and codas, respectively. Acoustic measurements showed that both onset and coda clusters induce vowel shortening. Two potential ...

The so-called overapplication of Coda Neutralization in Korean, the occurrence of a neutralized consonant in a non-neutralizing environment, is often considered as evidence for serial derivation. In this paper I propose that the neutralization effect at surface is not a result of a phonological process at an intermediate level in serial derivation, but due to a constraint requiring the integrit...

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...

This project investigates the relationship of vowel duration and coda duration in modern Welsh monosyllabic words ending in a simplex consonant. Acoustic data from 16 native speakers from the two major dialectal varieties of Welsh were analysed. We found vowel duration highly predictive by coda duration, taking into account possible influences of phrase prosody, speaker and variety specific dev...

Speech errors are known to exhibit an intrusion bias in that segments are added rather than deleted; also, a shared final consonant can cause an interaction of the initial consonants. A principled connection between these two phenomena has been drawn in a gestural account of errors: Articulatory measures revealed a preponderance of errors in which both the target and intruding gesture are co-pr...

Adults can learn novel phonotactic constraints from brief listening experience. We investigated the representations underlying phonotactic learning by testing generalization to syllables containing new vowels. Adults heard consonant-vowel-consonant study syllables in which particular consonants were artificially restricted to the onset or coda position (e.g., /f/ is an onset, /s/ is a coda). Su...

Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists.  In this paper we study  the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old  Persian  (O.P)  to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P). For this purpose all the words containing consonant sequences are collected from specific sources of each  of these  languages,  and then  analysed  according to the syllab...

The aims of this study are (1) to determine the acoustic pattern signaling that a syllable in Standard Chinese, SC, contains a nasal coda, and (2) specify the acoustic attributes that distinguish between the two places of articulation for a nasal coda. The "rst syllable in SC disyllabic words with simple vowels [a], [i], and [ə] was examined in di!erent contexts: (1) vowel with a nasal coda [n]...