It has generally been assumed that after nonlow vowels in English, hiatus is resolved by
inserting a homorganic glide (eg seeing [sijɪŋ], Itô & Mester 2009). However, despite …

Formants in speech signals are easily identified, largely because formants are defined to be
local maxima in the wideband sound spectrum. Sadly, this is not what is of most interest in …

Word-initial/s/-consonant clusters do not occur in Spanish. Confronted with such sequences
(eg, in loanwords), Spanish speakers tend to perceive an illusory initial/e/,'repairing'the illicit …

This study aims to provide a comprehensive account of the segmental and prosodic
phonology and the morphology of Wadi Mousa Arabic, a rural Jordanian dialect spoken in …

Many previous studies have argued that phonology may leave some phonetic dimensions
unspecified in surface representations. We introduce computational tools for assessing this …

This paper considers the origin of “pitch accents” in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating
the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by …

Working with multilingual children requires knowledge of their home/heritage culture and
language (s), norms for development of these languages in monolingual and multilingual …

The paper discusses epenthesis and vowel intrusion in the Central Dhofari variety of Mehri,
one of six endangered Modern South Arabian languages indigenous to southern Arabia …

This chapter provides a general overview of standard syllable-based analyses and
highlights their implications on the syllable structure of Moroccan Arabic (MA) and Berber. A …

Abstract Studies in Articulatory Phonology (Browman & Goldstein, 1993) have established
that what sounds like insertion of a segment can be a side effect of gestural timing relations …