Evolution of languages has always been of interest to linguists.  In this paper we study  the natural progress of the syllable structure from Old  Persian  (O.P)  to Middle Persian (Mi.P) and up to the Modern Persian (Mo.P). For this purpose all the words containing consonant sequences are collected from specific sources of each  of these  languages,  and then  analysed  according to the syllab...

Jespersen’s sonority hierarchy fails to account for commonly observed syllable structures such as initial [spV], [stV] and [skV] and their final mirror images [Vps], [Vts] and [Vks]. It is likely, however, that stop place of articulation is signaled quite efficiently in these sequences since acoustic place information is present both before and after the stop, i.e., both in [s] and in the vowel...

Phonological knowledge of a language involves knowledge about which segments can be combined under what conditions. Languages vary in the quantity and quality of licensed combinations, in particular sequences of consonants, with Polish being a language with a large inventory of such combinations. The present paper reports on a two-session experiment in which Polish-speaking adult participants l...

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...

We propose in this paper a language-independent method for syllable segmentation. The method is based on the Sonority Sequencing Principle, by which the sonority inside a syllable increases from its boundaries towards the syllabic nucleus. The sonority function employed was derived from the posterior probabilities of a broad phonetic class recognizer, trained with data coming from an open-sourc...

We propose in this paper a language-independent method for syllable segmentation. The method is based on the Sonority Sequencing Principle, by which the sonority inside a syllable increases from its boundaries towards the syllabic nucleus. The sonority function employed was derived from the posterior probabilities of a broad phonetic class recognizer, trained with data coming from an open-sourc...

The issues this paper addresses are the sonority conversion, which is defined as different ranking of sonority in a certain language, and the case taken from a variety of English. While Rhotic has larger sonority value than Lateral and Nasal in the general ranking, in Present-Day American English the tap, a rhotic, is less sonorous than the lateral and nasals but more sonorous than obstruents. ...

in this research a number of important and active phonological processes in standard german, spoken in berlin, have been studied. in this regard, four dictionaries: duden universal w?rterbuch (1998), langenscheidt (2002), brock haus (1996), and panbeh-chi (1379) have been used for gathering the data. furthermore, two german informants had a four-hour interview to complete the data. in addition,...

PCR using sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) is widely employed for the genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in both routine diagnosis and medical research. The human platelet alloantigens (HPAs) represent SNPs in platelet-specific glycoproteins, and HPA-1, -2, -3, and -5 are the most relevant in immunohematology. In most protocols, the respective HPA-SNPs are analyzed in allel...