The timing of consonant clusters in Swedish has been studied intensively. However, from a phonological perspective coda-internal timing with regards to quantity has not yet successfully been studied. This study intends to provide more data on the duration of Swedish consonant clusters: (a) sonorant-sonorant clusters and (b) sonorant-obstruent clusters. In addition consonant clusters illegal in ...

This paper aims to examine how the consonant clusters and illicit codas are modified in Mandarin loanwords transliterated from English, and to argue that no rules need to be involved and that a purely constraint-based approach—within the framework of Optimality Theory—can explain the data. The data collected from transliterated American state names and state names display the onset-coda inconsi...

A series of vowel-identification experiments using gated consonant stimuli shows that English listeners are capable of recovering the vocalic context in which a consonant appears from information contained in the consonant alone. This is true for most consonants tested, including liquids, nasals, and stops in onset and coda position. Positional asymmetries in vowel sensitivity go in opposite di...

This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners. Persian syllable structure is "CV(CC)", composed of one consonant at the initial position and two optional consonants at the final position; whereas English syllable structure is "(CCC)V(CCCC)". Therefore, Persian EFL learners need to resolve...

The present study aims to explore how phonological, morphological and prosodic features of an utterance affect perception of English codas by Mandarin listeners. A phoneme detection task was conducted with the word-final target phoneme /s/ appearing utterance-medially or finally in various phonological (consonant cluster vs. singleton) and morphological (plural morpheme vs. coda of a stem word)...

This study systematically investigates the temporal organization of American English onset and coda consonant clusters on the basis of kinematic data. Results from seven speakers suggest that consonants in complex onsets are organized globally with respect to the following vowel, while consonants in complex codas are organized locally relative to the preceding vowel. These results support the c...

Two phoneme monitoring experiments examined the influence of Transitional Probability (TP) on phoneme recognition. Target phonemes appeared at the end of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) syllables, or as the first element of coda clusters in CVCC syllables. Reliable TP effects were found only for targets in CVCC syllables. The TPs both into and out of the targets influenced listeners' ability to...

Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants). It has also been a...

1 A challenge for OT 1.1 Compensatory lengthening as weight conservation Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989). Compensatory lengthening is most often triggered by the deletion ...

This study attempts to describe the ability of English Department students, Faculty Humanities, Udayana University in pronouncing final consonant clusters. Consonant clusters are groups consonants that can occur initia lly (onset) and finally (coda) syllable structure. The features each language highly dependent on itself. In English, number at beginning a be up three such as: structure /strʌkt...