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...

this article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of sistani persian spoken in iranian sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. a representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. while assimilation and dissimilation a...

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 ...

It is well-known that consonant clusters obeying the sonority sequencing principle are universally preferred over clusters violating it; what is less clear is the status of sonority violating clusters in languages that have them. These clusters could betray their typological " markedness " by differing from sonority-obeying clusters in the same language. However, it may actually be the case tha...

Syllable contact pairs cross-linguistically tend to have a falling sonority slope, a constraint which is called the Syllable Contact Law (SCL). In this study, the phonotactics of syllable contacts in 4202 CVC.CVC words of Persian lexicon is investigated. The consonants of Persian were divided into five sonority categories and the frequency of all possible sonority slopes is computed both in lex...

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...

The Sonority Dispersion Principle (Clements, 1990) states that the sharper the rise in sonority between the beginning of the syllable and the nucleus, the better the syllable. So far evidence in favour of this principle has been derived mainly from the distributional properties of syllable types and, to a lesser extent, from language acquisition. The case of DB, presented in this study, provide...

In this paper we consider a widely attested process: sonority substitutions whereby sounds of a certain sonority class change into sounds of another sonority class. These sonority substitutions concern, for example, liquids (/l,r/) changing into glides (/j,w/). The target word groen ‘green’ may be realized by an aphasic speaker as [xjUn] or [xwUn]. We will discuss these sonority substitutions i...

This study is an investigation of flaps and trills in Najdi Hijazi Arabic, which are the most spoken Arabic varieties Saudi Arabia. It focuses on how behave relation to vowels consonants two Arabic. The data this were collected from four five participants. A total number 730 sentences read by was found that /r/, underlying phoneme, surfaces as [r] when it occurs word-initially or after a [-coro...