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La rappresentazione delle opposizioni di sonorità

open access: yesAnnali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2023
This paper deals with aspects of the phonological representation of voicing contrasts, which is a major topic segmental phonology, also because it is closely related to the theory of phonological primitives and of the relationship between phonetics and ...
Laura Bafile
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Between-word junctures in early multi-word speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Most children aged 1;6 to 2;0 begin to use utterances of two words or more. It is therefore important for child phonologists to consider the development of phonetic and phonological phenomena that characterize connected speech.
Newton, C., Wells, B.
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Kussummiya phonology

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023
The article provides a descriptive account of the phonology of Kussummiya spoken in southwest Ethiopia. It is basically a qualitative study in that linguistic data are collected from native speakers by using elicitation technique. The collected data are
Wondwosen Tesfaye
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PHONOLOGICAL ASSIMILATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEXICAL UNITS IN MODERN ENGLISH

open access: diamondInternational Humanitarian University Herald. Philology, 2020
O. Kechedzhi
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The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We investigated whether regional differences in the native language (L1) influence the perception of second language (L2) sounds. Many cross-language and L2 perception studies have assumed that the degree of acoustic similarity between L1 and L2 sounds ...
Escudero, Paola   +2 more
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Cross-linguistic transfer of phonological assimilation in early and late bilinguals

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Bilinguals show linguistic transfer effects at several processing levels. Focusing on phonology, we investigate the transfer of optional assimilation rules during speech production. Specifically, we examine to what extent bilinguals apply their native assimilation rule and/or fail to apply an L2 assimilation rule in their L2 speech.
Sharon Peperkamp   +3 more
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Nasal place assimilation trades off inferrability of both target and trigger words

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2018
In English, nasal place assimilation occurs across word boundaries, such as ten bucks pronounced as te[m] bucks. Assimilation can be viewed as a reduction or loss of the assimilation target’s place cue (/n/ in ten), and simultaneously as an enhancement ...
Elizabeth Hume   +3 more
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On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2004
Based on where and how phonological rules apply, studies in Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986; Kiparsky 1985; Pulleyblank 1986; etc.) distinguish between two levels in the phonology; namely, lexical and post-lexical.
Charles Ofosu Marfo
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Production of L3 Vowels: Is it Possible to Separate them from L1 and L2 Sounds? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is incontrovertible that acquisition of a sound system of a second language is always a complex phenomenon and presents a great challenge for L2 learners (e.g. Rojczyk, 2010a). There are numerous studies (e.g.
Arabski   +96 more
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Assimilation of French-Canadian Names into New England Speech: Notes from a Vermont Cemetery

open access: yesNames, 2008
Headstones in St Mary's Cemetery in Middlebury, Vermont, and entries in the marriage repertoire of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the same town illustrate patterns of Canadian French accommodation to New England phonology as ...
Michael Adams
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