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 variety of experiments support the existence of “sonority projection”: speakers represent severe sonority sequencing violations ([lba]) as less wellformed than modest ones ([bda]), even though neither is present in their native language. One interpretation of such findings is that the Sonority Sequencing Principle ([9]) is part of Universal Grammar. Modeling study, however, suggests that the ...

This paper proposes a new method for detecting syllable boundaries. It is based on the sonority and it uses the so-called Sonority Sequencing Principle for the boundary detection. As acoustic correlate of the phonological concept of sonority we use the regularities present in the spectrogram of the signal. By finding the maxima of the sonority function we will be finding the syllable nuclei, wh...

this study presents an overview of the different strategies that persian learners of english employ to deal with initial clusters. while vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. in this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. the first o...

We propose in this paper a language-independent method for syllable segmentation. The method is based on the Sonority Sequencing Principle, by which the sonority inside a syllable increases from its boundaries towards the syllabic nucleus. The sonority function employed was derived from the posterior probabilities of a broad phonetic class recognizer, trained with data coming from an open-sourc...

We propose in this paper a language-independent method for syllable segmentation. The method is based on the Sonority Sequencing Principle, by which the sonority inside a syllable increases from its boundaries towards the syllabic nucleus. The sonority function employed was derived from the posterior probabilities of a broad phonetic class recognizer, trained with data coming from an open-sourc...

Abstract The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) is a fundamental governing principle of syllable structure; however, its details remain contested. This study aims to clarify the empirical status SSP in cross-linguistic 496 languages. We adopt phonetically-grounded definition sonority – acoustic intensity and examine how many languages contain SSP-violating clusters word-initially word-finally....