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Perceptual evidence for the phonological adaptation of English vowels in Persian sound system [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 Loanword adaptations are transformations applied to words when they are borrowed into a foreign language. Words from a source language that are ill-formed in the borrowing language are thus transformed into well-formed words (Hyman, 1970; Yip, 1993 ...
Neda Bigdeli, Vahid Sadeghi
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English
LingBaW, 2022 A parallel is drawn between the northernmost regions of England represented by Durham and Yorkshire and the transition zone Ouddeken (2016) identifies between voicing and aspiration languages in the Dutch-German dialect continuum.
Katalin Balogné Bérces
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Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon +2 more
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Compensation for phonological assimilation: Obstruent nasalization and coronal place assimilation
Linguistic Research, 2018 This paper investigates whether native English, Korean, and Chinese listeners show language-specific compensation mechanisms for phonological assimilation processes. To this end, two different assimilation rules, obstruent nasalization and coronal place assimilation, were tested. Fourteen Korean listeners, eleven English listeners, and fourteen Chinese
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Cryptosonorants and the misapplication of voicing assimilation in Biaspectual Phonology
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2005 n ...
Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Phonology of Adur Niesu in Liangshan, Sichuan
Languages, 2023 This study describes the segmental and suprasegmental phonology of Adur Niesu, a Loloish (or Ngwi) language spoken mainly in Liangshan, Sichuan, southwest China. Phonemically, there are 41 consonants, 10 monophthongs and 1 diphthong in Adur Niesu.
Hongdi Ding
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated the phonetic training performance of 80 first language (L1) Catalan/Spanish advanced second language (L2) English learners in a four‐session high‐variability phonetic training (HVPT) program and how their training progress interacted with stimuli type (nonwords vs. words) and individual differences in auditory selective
Ingrid Mora‐Plaza +3 more
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The Analysis of Phonology in First Language Acquisition Melayu Pattani in Children Three-Year-Old
Ideas, 2020 The study aims at finding out how the children in Pattani, Thailand acquire their first language acquisition. The study is focused on the children of three-year-old due to the fact that they are able invited to communicate in two ways and already ...
Idda Astia
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