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Prieto, Pilar; D'Imperio, Mariapaola; Fivela, Barbara Gili – Language and Speech, 2005
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Italian, Suprasegmentals, Phonology
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Girbau, Dolors; Schwartz, Richard G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: A number of previous studies have revealed that children with Specific Language Impairment have limitations in Phonological Working Memory as revealed by a task that requires them to repeat non-words of increasing syllable length. However, most published studies have used non-words that are phonotactically English. Aims: The purpose…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Memory, Syllables, Spanish Speaking
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Ashby, William J. – Studia Linguistica, 1975
The "rhythmic group" in French (noun group or verb group) is described with examples. The aim is to find some relation between the morphophonological phenomena such as "liaison" occurring within such rhythmic groups and the syntactic structure of French. Available from Liber Laeromedel, Box 1205, S-22105 Lund, Sweden. (TL)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Intonation, Morphophonemics
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Strauss, Steven L. – Glossa, 1980
Morpheme distribution is declared sufficiently independent of phonological considerations to warrant a theory of autonomous morphology. The "maximal nesting principle" proposed requires that each affix be attached to a new nonterminal node. This principle forces a new analysis of "-ate" derived verbs and eliminates the morphological abstractions…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Generative Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
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Kelly, Michael H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Theories of English phonology regard syllable onset patterns as irrelevant to the assignment of lexical stress. This paper describes three studies that challenge this position. Study 1 tested whether stress patterns on a large sample of disyllabic English words varied as a function of word onset. The incidence of trochaic stress increased…
Descriptors: English, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns, Syllables
Rotaetxe, Karmele – Linguistique, 1978
Examines the structure and linguistic functions of stress in Basque. (AM)
Descriptors: Basque, Descriptive Linguistics, Phonology, Pronunciation
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Crawford, James M. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1973
Research accomplished in connection with the Southeastern Indian Language Project and supported by a grant to the University of Georgia from the National Science Foundation. (RS)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Charts, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Classification
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Egido, Carmen; Cooper, William E. – Journal of Phonetics, 1980
Experiments were conducted to examine the influence of syntactic boundaries on the operation of a phonological rule in speech production. Results indicate that traditional metrics of boundary strength, as well as linguistic formulations of phonological rules, must be elaborated to recognize the special status of clause boundaries and deletion…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Phonetics, Phonology
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Pointon, Graham E. – Journal of Phonetics, 1980
Examines previously published experimental work on rhythm of spoken Spanish to establish whether or not Spanish is a "syllable-timed" language. Analyzes figures from the experiments and concludes that Spanish is neither stress-timed nor syllable-timed, displaying an antirhythmic pattern where each segment has a "standard duration" dependent on its…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Language Rhythm, Phonetics, Phonology
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Kehoe, Margaret; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
This study examined 18 22-to-34-month-old children's truncation patterns in multisyllabic words. In strong-weak-strong-weak and strong-weak-weak words, final unstressed syllables were more frequently preserved than nonfinal unstressed syllables. Results revealed a significant stress pattern effect on truncation rate and support the interaction…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Error Analysis (Language), Phonology, Stress (Phonology)
Nihalani, Paroo – IRAL, 1993
Arguing that the question of social acceptability of allophonic variations is not a linguistic issue, but rather an issue of social identity, the discussion considers the speech chain, language as a social activity with its "norms" for social acceptability, and the specific context where Singaporean English is a marker of social…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Foreign Countries, Phonemics, Phonology
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Gerken, Louann; And Others – Cognition, 1994
Infants heard sentences in which prosodic structure was either consistent or inconsistent with the syntactic structure. Results suggest that the prosodic information in an individual sentence is not always sufficient to assign a syntactic structure and that learners must engage in active inferential processes to arrive at the correct syntactic…
Descriptors: Infants, Inferences, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Schiller, Niels O.; Fikkert, Paula; Levelt, Clara C. – Brain and Language, 2004
This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and final stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different stress as the target…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Suprasegmentals, Speech
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Vigario, Marina; Freitas, Maria Joao; Frota, Sonia – Language and Speech, 2006
This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Portuguese, Suprasegmentals
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Kureta, Yoichi; Fushimi, Takao; Tatsumi, Itaru F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Speech production studies have shown that the phonological form of a word is made up of phonemic segments in stress-timed languages (e.g., Dutch) and of syllables in syllable timed languages (e.g., Chinese). To clarify the functional unit of mora-timed languages, the authors asked native Japanese speakers to perform an implicit priming task (A. S.…
Descriptors: Vowels, Prior Learning, Phonology, Native Speakers
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