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L vocalisation as a natural phenomenon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Britain, DJ, Johnson, W
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The Role of Phonetic Distance in the Acquisition of Phonological Alternations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Lambrechts, Anna   +2 more
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Assimilation as Attraction: Computing Distance, Similarity, and Locality in Phonology

2009
This dissertation explores similarity effects in assimilation, proposing an Attraction Framework to analyze cases of parasitic harmony where a trigger-target pair only results in harmony if the trigger and target agree on other features. Attraction provides a natural model of these effects by relating the pressure for assimilation to the ...
Adam Wayment
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The assimilation of Dravidian loans to Konkani phonological and morphological patterns

open access: closedIndo-Iranian Journal, 1977
AbstractAfter briefly reviewing the status of Konkani in the Dravidian area, and the extent of Dravidian influence on this Indo-Aryan language, the assimilation of Dravidian loan words to Konkani phonological and morphological patterns is examined in detail.
Rocky V. Miranda
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Phonological ‘voicing’, phonetic voicing, and assimilation in English

open access: closedLanguage Sciences, 2007
Abstract This article investigates certain aspects of regressive voicing assimilation by means of a quantitative acoustic study of British English obstruent clusters. It is found that the phonologically voiceless obstruents /t, s/, and contrary to many impressionistic descriptions, the phonologically voiced sounds /z/ and to some extent, /d/ trigger ...
Wouter Jansen
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Compensation for phonological assimilation can be triggered by nonspeech sounds

open access: closedThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004
Several previous experiments have shown that phonological assimilations are compensated for perceptually by a context-sensitive mechanism. For instance, the Hungarian assimilated form ‘‘bar’’ of the word ‘‘bal’’ (‘‘left’’) is recognized as such only if it occurs in a context that allows assimilation (i.e., ‘‘balrol’’ assimilated to ‘‘barrol,’’ ‘‘from ...
Holger Mitterer
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