The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-
linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure …

Whistled forms of languages are distributed worldwide and survive only in some of the most
remote villages on the planet. They are not limited to a given continent, language family, or …

Phonetic aspects of many languages have been documented, though the breadth and focus
of such documentation varies substantially. In this survey, phonetic aspects (here called …

Language documentation faces a persistent and pervasive problem: How much material is
enough to represent a language fully? How much text would we need to sample the full …

In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic
structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber …

Vowelless words are exceptionally typologically rare, though they are found in some
languages, such as Tashlhiyt (eg, fkt 'give it'). The current study tests whether lexicons …

Autosegmental-metrical phonology has shown itself to be a highly successful framework for
the description, analysis and comparison of the prosody of many of the world's languages …

A growing body of research has been conducted on the phonology of Tashlhiyt over the last
few decades. This article offers a general overview into this research. It provides a concise …

Setswana (also known as 'Tswana'or, more archaically,'Chuana'or 'Sechuana') is a Bantu
language (group S. 30; ISO code tsn) spoken by an estimated four million people in South …

This paper proposes a procedure to evaluate the possible existence of negative correlation
between three language ratios (phonemes per syllable, syllables per word, and words per …