Nasal place assimilation trades off inferrability of both target and trigger words
Laboratory 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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The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second language (L2) phonetics and phonology. Four main conceptual frameworks are discussed and compared: the Perceptual Assimilation Model-L2, the Native Language Magnet ...
Chang, Charles B.
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On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account
Linguistik 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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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Assimilation of French-Canadian Names into New England Speech: Notes from a Vermont Cemetery
Names, 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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Acquiring a new second language contrast: an analysis of the English laryngeal system of native speakers of Dutch [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the acquisition of the English laryngeal system by native speakers of (Belgian) Dutch. Both languages have a two-way laryngeal system, but while Dutch contrasts prevoiced with short-lag stops, English has a contrast between short-lag ...
Simon, Ellen
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The Phonological Latching Network
Biolinguistics, 2021 This paper gives an analysis of an attractor neural network model dubbed the Phonological Latching Network. The model appears to reproduce certain quintessentially phonological phenomena, despite not having any of these phonological behaviours programmed
Joe Stephen Bratsvedal Collins
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Sound Correspondences of Modern Standard Arabic Moroccan Arabic and Najdi Arabic
Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization, 2020 This paper studies the process of sound correspondences that occur in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Moroccan Arabic (MAR), and Najdi Arabic (NAR). It attempts to find answers for the following questions: a) What are the identical word pairs, words ...
Darsita Suparno +3 more
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THE PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN JORDANIAN ARABIC [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1989 This paper investigates the effect of Jordanian Arabic phonology and morphology on loanwords borrowed from English . It begin with deferential description of the phonemic inventories of English and Arabic and points out significant difference and areas ...
Mohamed Dawood, salih Suliman
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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]
, 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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