Majorcan (and Balearic) Catalan dialects lack an overt inflectional morpheme for first person singular present indicative verb forms. Many of these Majorcan Catalan (MC) verbs end with the consonants of the verb root with no further inflectional vowel (represented by the morphs /u/, /o/, /e/ or /i/ in other dialects of Catalan). This divergent morphological structure is illustrated in (1) from ...

This study reports on a production experiment investigating tonal and articulatory means of encoding different focus structures in German. Using an electromagnetic articulograph, we examined the movements of the upper and lower lips (related to sonority expansion) during the production of target words occurring in four different focus conditions. We found systematic differences not only between...

In the present analysis, we argue that the canonical difference between Moroccan Arabic triliteral nouns and verbs can be explained by invoking the active role of an alignment and a sonority condition constraint. We attempt to clarify the issue by arguing that an examination of the perfective inflectional paradigm of sound triliteral verbs can provide hints about the difference in behavior exhi...

In this paper we will consider a widely attested process: LIQUID-GLIDE ALTERNATION, a phenomenon that can be observed in many areas of phonological research, such as studies of disordered language, historical sound changes and nonpathological speech errors and also in child language. You can see examples of this process in first language acquisition data from different languages in (1). Liquids...