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1 a Bibliography of Resources on Sonority Steve Parker Graduate A Bibliography of Resources on Sonority Steve Parker Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and SIL International last updated on January 29, 2018 To contact me by e-mail: [email protected] (preferred) [email protected] Instructions This document currently contains 2413 references, arranged alphabetically. I plan to update it periodically. Corrections, additions, and suggestions are welcome. Eventually I hope to also post on this site a version of this same list of resources, arranged thematically (by subtopics). This list of citations was compiled with version 5.0.34 of Zotero and formatted according to the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals. In this file I have not fixed every inconsistency in terms of spelling, capitalization, missing fields, etc. Consequently, there are no guarantees about the accuracy of every detail. Nevertheless, most of the mistakes are relatively minor and should not obscure the reader’s understanding of the citations in most cases. I would be happy to provide this same list of references in a different style, format, or sorting order, upon request. Abboub, Nawal, Thierry Nazzi & Judit Gervain. 2016. Prosodic grouping at birth. Brain and Language 162. 46–59. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.08.002. Abney, Drew H., Christopher T. Kello & Anne S. Warlaumont. 2015. Production and convergence of multiscale clustering in speech. Ecological Psychology 27(3). 222–235. doi:10.1080/10407413.2015.1068653. Abney, Drew H., Anne S. Warlaumont, D. Kimbrough Oller, Sebastian Wallot & Christopher T. Kello. 2016. Multiple Coordination Patterns in Infant and Adult Vocalizations. Infancy. n/a-n/a. doi:10.1111/infa.12165. Abolhasanizadeh, Vahide, Anis Masoumi & Allame Tabata’i. 2015. Analyzing the COG and intensity of Kermani vowels in the process of vowel reduction. http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL28/pdf_doc/02.pdf (24 July, 2015). Abrahamsson, Niclas. 1999. Vowel Epenthesis of /sC(C)/ Onsets in Spanish/Swedish Interphonology: A Longitudinal Case Study. Language Learning 49(3). 473–508. doi:10.1111/0023-8333.00097. Abu-Salim, Issam M. 1988. Syllable structure constraints and the sonority hierarchy in Arabic. Dirasat 15. 44–77. Adda-Decker, Martine, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Gilles Adda & Lori Lamel. 2005. Investigating syllabic structures and their variation in spontaneous French. Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation 46(2). 119–139. doi:10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.006. 1 GIAL Special Electronic Publications 2 Adeniyi, Kọlawọle. 2016. Hybrid Sounds in Yoruba. Ihafa: A Journal of African Studies 7(1). http://crj.unilag.edu.ng/index.php/ihafa/article/viewFile/261/148 (15 March, 2016). 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International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering 9(6). 2203–2206. Al Tamimi, Yasser A.S. & Yousef Al Shboul. 2013. Is the phonotactics of the Arabic complex coda sonority-based? Journal of King Saud University - Languages and Translation 25(1). 21–33. doi:10.1016/j.jksult.2012.12.003. Al-Ahmadi Al-Harbi, Awwad Ahmad. 2002. Onset clusters and the Sonority Sequencing Principle in Acehnese. Umm Al-Qura University, ms. http://libback.uqu.edu.sa/hipres/MAGZ/3200006-10.pdf. Alamolhoda, Seyyed Morteza. 2015. CVCC Syllables from the Etymological Point of View. Studia Orientalia Electronica 89. 143–176. AlAmro, Mohammad. 2015. Syllabification in Najdi Arabic: A Constraint-Based Analysis. 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