In Portuguese, different strategies for dealing with tune-text accommodation have been reported. However, no systematic research has been conducted exploring crucial cases of complex nuclear melodies realized in nuclear words with final stress, as in yes-no questions. Based on reading and semispontaneous data from ten regions in Brazil and eleven regions in Portugal, this study reveals that Bra...

0 Introduction Much linguistic research has focused on interlanguage (IL) deletion and epenthesis, most often within a typological framework (e.g. Eckman 1977, 1986, 1991, Eckman & Iverson 1993, Carlisle 1998). While typological analyses are generally descriptively and predictively adequate, they arguably have three important weaknesses. First, typological accounts have little to say about the ...

This paper investigates the production and perception of epenthetic stops at syllable boundaries in Dutch and compares the experimental data with lexical statistics for Dutch and English. This extends past work on epenthesis in coda position [1]. The current work is particularly informative regarding the question of phonotactic constraints’ influence on parsing of speech variability.

1 Introduction The distribution of schwa is similar across most Northern Berber languages. The general pattern in all cases can be seen as the result of two restrictions on the surface forms of the language: one demanding that all consonants be adjacent to a vowel (or, more or less equivalently, that all consonants belong to a maximally CVC syllable), the other demanding that schwa not occur in...

___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Edges of prosodic and morphological constituents often behave differently from non-edge positions, but it is not always clear how such edge-effects are brought about. This paper is a case study of an edge-phenomenon in different varieties of German. Thus, glottal stop epenthesis is limited to edges of morpheme...