Phonetic variability and grammatical knowledge: an articulatory study of Korean place assimilation. [PDF]
The study reported here uses articulatory data to investigate Korean place assimilation of coronal stops followed by labial or velar stops, both within words and across words.
Ahn+29 more
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Neutralization in Aztec Phonology – the Case of Classical Nahuatl Nasals [PDF]
This article investigates nasal assimilation in Classical Nahuatl. The distribution of nasal consonants is shown to be the result of coda neutralization.
Amherst+82 more
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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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Effects of two teaching methods of connected speech in a Polish EFL classroom [PDF]
The results demonstrate that in general, NF proved more effective than NNF. With regard to individual processes of connected speech, NF was more effective in production, whereas no such effect was found for ...
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The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism [PDF]
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
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]
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
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]
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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