La rappresentazione delle opposizioni di sonorità
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]
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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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
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]
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
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
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
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]
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
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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