A syllable is a unit of phonological organisation which is larger than the sound segment (phoneme) and smaller than the word. In the middle of the syllable there is usually a vowel, and then ...

and for a degree of phonological abstraction. They should learn to carry out elementary, broad phonetic transcription, and be able to establish contrastive vowel and consonant systems for their own ...

A wide range of heritage language sound system issues are addressed: at the segmental level, production of vowels and various consonants, segmental perception, and the perception of written forms ...

The paper attempts to compare the status of palatalization of consonants in Modern Irish and Polish within the phonological and morphological systems of the two languages. Irish and Polish have been ...

His recent work has included the computational phonology of Kuku; in that area, he has been working on finite state approaches to tonal phonology and an object-oriented approach to consonant harmony.

Like any other spoken language or language variety, the segmental components of Philippine English phonology include both vowels and consonants. Pronunciation of these sounds can sometimes ...