The Handbook of Phonological Theory

Russian Loanword Adaptation in Persian; Optimal Approach

In this paper we analyzed some of the phonological rules of Russian loanword adaptation in Persian, on the view of Optimal Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky, 1993, 2003). It is the first study of phonological process on Russian loanwords adaptation in Persian. By gathering about 50 current Russian loanwords, we selected some of them to analyze. We found out that vowel insertion, vowel prothesis...

Clustering dialects automatically: A mutual information approach

Dialects can be categorized in many ways. Using external features, dialects may be grouped by geographic location (e.g., Irish English), ethnic identity (e.g., AAVE), or social networks (e.g., Liberian Settler English) of their speakers. Or, using internal features, dialects may be grouped by shared features of pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar. We explore quantitative approaches to see how...

Undesirable Consequences and Predictions That Kahnemuyipour's System Makes, and Suggest a Modification of Kahnemuyipour's Framework In

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Modelling phonological category learning

The term " phonological categories " refers to the discrete elements that make up a phonological representation, i.e. elements of its temporal organization (e.g. foot, syllable, mora, segment, or autosegment) and elements of its internal content (e.g. phonemes such as /p/ and /n/, or feature values such as [+nasal] and the high tone H). From the mere fact that the term " phonological category l...

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