Jul 2026· Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi· Vol 26, pp. 1337-1361· 0 citations· 8 references
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This study aims to investigate if the universal principles such as geminate inalterability and integrity are applicable in Turkish geminates by utilizing an optimality theoretic analysis besides exploring dominant constraint groups. Thus, Turkish National Corpus was referred for compiling Turkish words including lexical plosive geminates. Among data composed of 106 words whose transcriptions were based on Spoken Language and Dictionary of Turkish Articulation, the most frequent seven words were selected for analysis depending on geminate consonant groups’ articulatory categories and phonological environments. The results indicated faithfulness constraints enforcing gemination integrity and protection of voicing features like GEM-Integrity and IDENT-IO[voice] dominate markedness constraints such as SHARE[front], AGREE[back], LICENSE([sg], Onset), and *[spread]/CODA controlling frontness / backness agreement of geminate consonants with their phonological environment despite the featural changes seen between geminate pairs.
This study is an Optimality-Theoretic comparison of two major dialects of Iraqi Arabic: Baghdadi Gilit Arabic (BGD) and Basri Arabic (BAS), focusing on syllable structure variation. The data were collected from 20 native speakers (10 for each dialect), representing both rural and urban backgrounds, as participants in r...
Israa Ali Kareem Al-Aaydi· مجلة واسط للعلوم الانسانية· 0 citations
This study adopts a contrastive linguistic approach to examine the predicate functions in English and Central Kurdish (Sorani), focusing on their syntactic, morphological, and semantic characteristics. While both languages belong to the Indo-European family, they diverge significantly in structure: English follows a ri...
Ahmad A. Ibrahim, Ibrahim M. Karimi· Koya University Journal of H...· 0 citations
The study aims to investigate pragmatic fossilization in English learners' acquisition of discourse markers in oral English. Pragmatic fossilization refers to the inability to completely master and apply the target language, so comparison between non-native speakers and native speakers on pragmatic competence is essent...
Yue-Qi Ma, Yi Zhang· Journal of Linguistics &...· 0 citations
This paper presents a comprehensive Optimality Theory (OT) analysis of stress assignment in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), focusing on monosyllabic, disyllabic, and trisyllabic words. The analysis confirms the bimoraic minimality requirement, which excludes light syllables (CV) from functioning as independent words, ref...
Abstract Discreteness of representations is a core commitment of classical generative phonology. However, one of the biggest arguments levelled against discreteness has come from the phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation – where the output of some phonological process on a feature [F] is phonetically distinct from un...
Adam G. McCollum, K. Durvasula, Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu· Phonology· 0 citations
In Mandarin Chinese, the interpretation of the
wh
-word
shenme
‘what’ varies
across surface-identical constructions, raising long-standing questions about the role of syntax and prosody in clause typing.
While previous analyses have focused on syntactic ambiguity or global intonation patterns, they have not a...
Yi Hu, Hai-Yang Wang· International Journal of Chi...· 0 citations
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