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Coronals and velars: support for Blust.(Squib)(Robert Blust)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Evolutionary Phonology. 1. INTRODUCTION: OBSTRUENT SYSTEM S Blust (2004) highlights the...Alveolar.) I will show how a comparison of obstruent systems across a range of languages gives...from first principles, by examining obstruent patters in a number of languages. Initially...
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Word reconstruction and consonant features in English and Spanish (1).
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Participants had the least difficulty substituting one obstruent for another obstruent. Again, the contribution of the feature [sonorant...changing just a consonant, either a resonant or an obstruent. For example, in experiment 1, the English participants...
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The phonology of epenthetic stops: implications for the phonetics-phonology interface in optimality theory *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship between nasal-liquid and nasal-obstruent epenthesis. Ohala (1995, 1997) relates...will address only epenthesis in nasal-obstruent clusters, since this type of epenthesis...production of epenthetic stops in a nasal-obstruent environment is clearly based in articulation...
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Reports on speech findings from University of Texas provide new insights.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 8/19/2009; 700+ words
; ...the acoustic landmarks introduced by obstruent consonants (e.g., stops). These...channels) sentences containing clean obstruent segments, but corrupted (by steady...the acoustic landmarks provided by the obstruent consonants enables listeners to integrate...
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Study results from Union College broaden understanding of acoustic research.
Newspaper article from: Journal of Engineering; 3/11/2009; 700+ words
; When a vowel follows an obstruent, the fundamental frequency in the first few tens of milliseconds...the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Effects of obstruent consonants on fundamental frequency at vowel onset in English...
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Doris Borrelli. Raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian. A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectal Study.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...three consonants; (3) a two-consonant cluster consists of an obstruent followed by a liquid or a sibilant followed by a stop (sdegno); (4) a sibilant preceding an obstruent and a liquid forms a triple cluster (stretto); (5) gemination...
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Analogical effects in regular past tense production in Dutch.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...The allomorph /t[??]/ is added when the stem ends in an underlyingly voiceless obstruent, or in other words, when the stem ends in a voiceless obstruent before the infinitive suffix /[??]n/en. The suffix/d[??]/is suffixed...
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K. Alexander Adelaar. 2005. Salako or Badamea, sketch grammar; texts and lexicon of a Kanayatn dialect in West Borneo.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and exemplifies a counterexample to a claimed universal, namely, that nasal + voiceless obstruent clusters are more marked than nasal + voiced obstruent clusters, and that the former should thus not occur in a language without the latter...
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Iatrogenic fornix rupture caused during retrograde manipulation of the ureter: a case report.(Case Report)(Case study)
Magazine article from: Cases Journal; 11/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...for developing a fornix rupture. The most common causes are obstruent ureter stones. 2-3% of all colics caused by stones are...surgeries. Further possible causes are restrictions through obstruent tumors or a traumatic event with chronic obstruction [2...
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Acquisition of L2 Japanese geminates: training with waveform displays.(programmed instructions)(Report)
Magazine article from: Language, Learning & Technology; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...separated by a dot and syllables by a hyphen: a) moraic obstruent: /ki.t.te/, /kit-te/ "postage stamp," and b...listening." (2) An important acoustic cue for geminate obstruent perception by native speakers of Japanese is stop closure...
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