Ever since the Afroasiatic affiliation of Chadic as a whole was suggested by Joseph H. Greenberg in his seminal re-classification African languages 1950s and has been generally accepted, i.e. encompassing both ‘Chado-Hamitic’ ‘Chadic’ influential pre-Greenbergian genetic classifications, issue whether Proto-Chadic possessed prenasalised obstruents velar nasals repeatedly raised debated literatu...

The article aims at contributing to the long-standing research on prosodic organization of linguistic elements and criteria used for identifying structures. Our focus is final coronal nasals in function words Greek variability their patterns realization before lexical words. Certain coalesce stops delete fricatives, whereas others do not. We propose that this split behavior does not pertain ite...

Here we describe a new eusuchian crocodyliform, collected 130 years ago from shallow marine limestone of the late Eocene (Priabonian) fossil locality Cluj-Mănăștur, Transylvania, Romania. Diplocynodon kochi n. sp. is represented by three-dimensionally preserved incomplete skull that may have belonged to mature individual. The taxon possesses relatively narrow and elongated snout mediolaterally ...

Consonant gemination in Italian affricates and fricatives was investigated, completing the overall study of consonants. Results analysis other consonant categories, i.e. stops, nasals, liquids, showed that closure duration for stops nasals form most salient acoustic cues to gemination. Frequency energy domain parameters were not significantly affected by a systematic way all classes. on confirm...

Recent acoustic research has challenged the traditional understanding of the spirantization of Spanish /b d g/. We compare acoustic and EPG results on the realization of /d/ in different contexts. Whereas we largely confirm recent observations regarding the postfricative context, we also show that after nasals and laterals the intensity curve associated with the voiced obstruent /d/ does not of...

The phonological and phonetic structure of nasal-stop sequences has elicited much attention. Yet, less is known about the internal timing of nasal-stop sequences than often assumed. This includes clusters, both nasal voiced-stop clusters (ND) and nasal voiceless-stop clusters (NT); and unary cases, most commonly prenasalized stops ( N D) but also so-called postploded nasals (N D ). 1 The latter...

In both Korean and E nglish, /m/ and /n/ contrast syllable-initially and /m/, /n/ and /N/ contrast syllable-finally. In Japanese, /m/ and /n/ contrast syllableinitially while nasals do not contrast syllable-finally. E xperiment 1 of this study investigated Korean and Japanese speakers’ perception of English nasals to examine how learners’ L1 influences the perception of L2 segments. The Japanes...