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What is the term for the duration ratio between the vowel and the coda?
There is no technical term for the ratio of vowel duration to coda duration. For the sake of clarity, it would be better to talk of "the ratio of vowel duration to coda duration", so that ...
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What are the rules for creating multiple syllable words in Tibetan without tsheg?
Your first assumption is largely correct. Native Tibetan words regularly employ the ཚེག་ tsheg (intersyllabic dot) to separate their syllables. However, loanwords, especially those from Sanskrit (...
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Single syllable breakdown of the word strawberry in IPA
There is a gap in the theories, precisely for this kind of "ambisyllabic" case. So stepping outside of the theories, I would consider the answer of Group 3 to be most reflective of the way ...
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What is the name of the thing that the tongue does on the syllable pri in Classical Latin, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese?
It's an alveolar trill, as explained in the video. The specific one used in prīmus at the end is a shorter one than in arma, with only a couple of flaps, but it's still considered an alveolar trill.
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Can an onset of a syllable be CV?
From a phonotactic perspective, the symbol V is often used to mean "acts as a syllable nucleus". And by this definition, the question doesn't really make sense. If V is defined as being part ...
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How to distinguish between hiatus and a diphthong?
The most important first step is being explicit as to what distinction you are positing. Terms like "hiatus" and especially "diphthong" are often over-applied to refer to different ...
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How To Solve UKLO Mandombe Problem
The numbers 1 through 5 are based on the five basic vowels in Mandombe: i, u, e, o, and a.
You can find the "closed triangle" shape of the number 4 in any syllables that contain an o vowel, ...
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Are there languages where all syllables start with a consonant and end in a vowel?
The Bantu language Kerewe is almost an example, because there are no codas at all, and all syllables have an onset except in utterance-initial position where there are also V-initial syllables.
The ...
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How do you write the phonological rule for if something occurs before a stressed syllable?
The SPE notation for a stressed syllable is to put an acute accent above the V symbol denoting any vowel. I found it somewhat hidden in this handout on SPE.
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Does 'z' act as a coda or onset in the syllable structure for the word crazy?
Nobody has devised a satisfactory test for syllabification especially in English. The literature is chock full of contradictory claims as to the syllabification of words, all supported with a bit of ...
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Single syllable breakdown of the word strawberry in IPA
The answer depends on what principles you assume must be in Universal Grammar. The three groups arrived at all of the analyses posited for English: coda-only, onset-only and both coda and onset. This ...
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In languages that allow vowel hiatus, what rules prevent the formation of words consisting only of four or more consecutive syllabic vowels?
From what little I’ve heard, [words comprising only four or more consecutive vowels] have never been attested in any natural language.
Such words certainly exist somewhere in some languages, although ...
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In languages that allow vowel hiatus, what rules prevent the formation of words consisting only of four or more consecutive syllabic vowels?
There is no principled limit on the number of consecutive vowels possible in human language, see for example Kamba [nénéké.é.é.éetɛ̂] 'I have cried for it'; Hyman 1982 has a similar 6-vowel ...
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How are codas before null onsets differentiated from onsets?
It's impossible to tell from pronunciation alone on a universal basis. I could be possible in a specific language if you know the phonetic rules governing vowels and consonant allophones. In some ...
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Deducing syllable structure from sonority curve and phonotactics
There is a huge wealth of analytic devices available for mapping segmental sequences into prosodic structures, so many in fact that some people would like to eliminate some of those devices as ...
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Can an onset of a syllable be CV?
That is how some people deal with the concept "short diphthong", so that [dŭat] could have a CV onset and one nuclear vowel, and [duat] would have two nuclear vowels. Justifying that ...
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