the present research aims to study the effects of syllabic structure in standard tajiki persian on the pronunciation of standard iranian persian words and the joint loanwords in these languages. this descriptive study used optimality theory, as a recent branch of generative grammar, to analyse the errors. to that end, ten tajiki-speaking persian learners, studying at imam khomeini international...

This paper investigates the coordination relations between f0 turning points and segmental landmarks in falling pitch accents in Catalan. Ten Central Catalan speakers participated in the production experiment, for a total of 500 target pitch accents. Results indicate that while the beginning of the falling accent gesture (H) is tightly synchronized with the onset of the accented syllable, the e...

The distribution of tonal fundamental frequency is dctcrmined on syllabics differing with respect to semivowels in their segmental structure for three of the contrasting tones from the Chinese Wu dialect of Zhenhai. Comparison with mean 170 and duration measurements from CV syllables dcmonstratcs differential distribution of tonally relevant FO with respect to the scmivowcl, conditioned by the ...

We report a series of experiments that demonstrate an effect of syllabic position on reaction time during phoneme monitoring in English. In our stimuli, the third phoneme of each word was the target phoneme, and it belonged either to the coda of the first syllable (coda-type target) or to the onset of the second syllable (onset-type target). By manipulating the proportions of the target types, ...

This article examines the status of consonant cluster resulting after concatenation discontinuous plural morpheme ma…….∫. In disconformity with Benhallam’s Syllable structure Assignment Algorithm (henceforth SSAA) which predicts that every succession consonants is resolved in MA by inserting schwa to break hiatus, abovementioned morphological operation does not permit epenthesis. As such, it im...

This paper reports on research that seeks to determine whether individual native Italian speakers consistently treat consonant clusters as heterosyllabic vs. tautosyllabic in experiments involving two phonological phenomena which have received syllable based-analyses: Raddoppiamento-Sintattico (RS) and definite article allomorphy. The convergence of both RS and article allomorphy on the same sy...

With the rapidly growing use of the audio and multimedia information over the Internet, the technology for retrieving speech information using voice queries is becoming more and more important. In this paper, considering the monosyllabic structure of the Chinese language, a whole class of syllable-based indexing features, including overlapping segments of syllables and syllable pairs separated ...

Rhythm in terms of the modulation of syllable durations represents an information-bearing feature of verbal utterances contributing both to the meaning of a sentence (linguistic prosody) as well as a speaker’s emotional expression (affective prosody). In order to delineate the neural structures subserving rhythmic shaping of speech production, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was pe...

This study examined event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with differences in the frequency of the initial syllable of target words whose syllabic structure provided either a match or mismatch with the /CV/ and /CVC/ syllables under analysis. Results showed ERP effects that were consistent with syllabic activation between 300 and 600 ms, with high frequency syllables producing more positiv...