this research aims to explore the observance of syllable contact law (scl) in persian simple words. to achieve this aim, 4661 contacts were extracted from 9553 simple polysyllabic words. results show that in 45% of the syllable boundaries the sonority drops from the coda of the first syllable to the onset of the next one. also in 68% of the consonant contacts in pure persian words scl is observ...

The foot is the prosodic entity typically used to explain metrical phenomena like stress assignment and pitch accentuation. This paper attempts to widen the explanatory role of feet to include not only suprasegmental effects but also segmental behaviour. Segmental properties such as static distribution patterns and dynamic alternation processes are usually explained by referring to another pros...

This study presents a robust indexing and retrieval scheme for digital photos with speech annotations based on the syllable-transformed patterns. In speech retrieval application, out-of-vocabulary and recognition error problems are generally prone to incorrect transcription and therefore degrade the retrieval performance. In this study, the recognized n-best syllable candidates for each syllabl...

careful analysis of the ferdows persian accent showed that the back vowel /a/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. however, this does not occur in the last syllable. it was also found that different processes occur before nasals; /a/ changes to [o] before /m/. but before /n/, it changes to [a] in the penult of ...

Atchan is a Kwa language spoken by approximately 150,000 people in and around Abidjan southern Côte d’Ivoire. In this paper, I describe aspects of the phonology Atchan, including its consonant vowel inventory, syllable structure, patterns nasalisation, lexical grammatical tone. provide examples from primary data collected collaboration with native speakers Atchan. This article offers first comp...

Disyllabic Norwegian words characteristically have an initial syllable which is stressed and heavy and a final syllable which is unstressed and light. Adopting a moraic theory of syllabic representation, the weight of the initial syllable can be realized either with a bimoraic vowel or with a monomoraic vowel followed by a moraic consonant. Monosyllabic words also show variation in the length o...

Auditory pattern recognition by the CNS is a fundamental process in acoustic communication. Because crickets communicate with stereotyped patterns of constant frequency syllables, they are established models to investigate the neuronal mechanisms of auditory pattern recognition. Here we provide evidence that for the neural processing of amplitude-modulated sounds, the instantaneous spike rate r...

Instead of the robust three-way contrast in the productions of two-syllable words varied in their accentual type, two types of neutralization were observed in native speakers of Tokyo Japanese. Two speakers produced some unaccented words with the accent on the final syllable; the other two speakers always produced words with the accent on the final syllable as unaccented. The accentual patterns...