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Spring 2022
It is common in linguistic analysis to treat words as strings of speech segments that are believed to be transduced from the speech signal. However, there are notable shortcomings with this approach, especially concerning word comparison. Principally, comparing speech segment strings does not...
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Juncture epenthesis in Filomeno Mata Totonac: prosodic constraints and syntactic conditions
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This thesis describes and analyzes the occurrence of juncture epentheses at word boundaries in Filomeno Mata Totonac. In this language, when two consonants come together at a word boundary, a vowel is often inserted; and when a vowel and an oral stop come together at a word boundary, there is...
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Spring 2022
This dissertation presents a description of the morphology and phonology of Zihuateutla Totonac (ZT), a member of the Northern branch of the Totonacan (Totonac-Tepehua) language family. Zihuateutla Totonac is spoken by about 1,100 people in northern Puebla State, Mexico. Previous to this study,...