This paper describes the development of text-to-speech corpora for four South African
languages. The approach followed investigated the possibility of using low-cost methods …

SPLITTING THEORY AND CONSONANT EPENTHESIS by PETR STAROVEROV A
Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rut Page 1 SPLITTING …

Consonant mutation is a linguistic phenomenon whereby two or more sets of consonant
phonemes alternate systematically within roots (or other morphemes) in a way that is not …

The basic articulatory process of producing clicks has become increasingly well-understood,
and has been the focus of a long tradition of work going back over a century, 1 including …

Previous studies on prenasalized stops (NCs) focus mainly on issues of derivation and
classification, but little is known about their distributional properties. The current study fills …

Phonological alternations in homorganic nasal–stop sequences provide a continuing topic
of investigation for phonologists and phoneticians alike. Surveys like Herbert (1986) …

This paper examines the role of phonetic cues to postnasal laryngeal contrasts, language-
specific differences in the use of these cues, and the phonetic naturalness of the different …

Vowel insertion commonly occurs cross-linguistically to break up consonant clusters,
particularly in loanwords. The most familiar form of this insertion is the categorical …

The phonetic motivation for the synchronic and diachronic development of post-nasal
voicing (* NT> ND) is well understood. Less well understood is the phonetic motivation for …

Consonant cluster simplification in Tundra Nenets coexists with other consonantal
alternations, such as fricative strengthening, lenition of stops, and a variety of NC-effects …