In the present analysis, we argue that the canonical difference between Moroccan Arabic triliteral nouns and verbs can be explained by invoking the active role of an alignment and a sonority condition constraint. We attempt to clarify the issue by arguing that an examination of the perfective inflectional paradigm of sound triliteral verbs can provide hints about the difference in behavior exhi...

In this paper we have investigated the syllabic structures found in Aromanian a Romance language spoken in the Balkans across multiple countries with important communities which spread from Greece to Romania. We have created a dictionary of syllabified words and analyzed a few general quantitative and phonological aspects of the dictionary. Furthermore, we have approached the syllabic complexit...

In this paper we will consider a widely attested process: LIQUID-GLIDE ALTERNATION, a phenomenon that can be observed in many areas of phonological research, such as studies of disordered language, historical sound changes and nonpathological speech errors and also in child language. You can see examples of this process in first language acquisition data from different languages in (1). Liquids...

This paper will describe typologically unusual onset clusters in Choapan Zapotec, an Oto-Manguean language spoken in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico. Onset clusters in Choapan Zapotec (CHO) violate sonority sequencing principles (SSP) in theoretically problematic ways; prohibitions in CHO against almost all types of coda consonants combine with these facts to create even more problems for cu...