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Samoan root phonotactics: Digging deeper into the data
Linguistic Discovery, 2013 This article gives a detailed quantitative account of Samoan root phonotactics. In particular, count data is given in eleven tables of segment frequencies (i.e., consonants, short and long vowels, diphthongs) and frequencies of combinations of segments ...
John Alderete, Mark Bradshaw
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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]
, 2009 We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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Mind, Brain, and Education, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT The sensory‐neural temporal sampling (TS) theory of language acquisition emphasizes the role of individual differences in speech rhythm processing. According to this theory, neural oscillations track loudness or amplitude modulation (AM) patterns—rhythmic fluctuations in speech intensity or energy—across multiple timescales.
Arantza Campollo‐Urkiza +4 more
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Languages, 2020 The present study deals with the perception (identification and discrimination) of an English phonemic contrast (/t∫/–/∫/, as in cheat and sheet) by speakers of two Mexican varieties of Spanish who are learning English as a foreign language.
Mariela López Velarde, Miquel Simonet
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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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Human Brain Mapping, Volume 46, Issue 18, 15 December 2025.In this large‐scale meta‐analysis, we have shown that different right hemispheric areas support different semantic functions. While the right IFG seems to support semantic control, and engage when semantic demands increase, the right ATL and pMTG seem to support social processing during language.
Eszter Demirkan, Francesca M. Branzi
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The Phonetics and Phonology of Chuxnaban Mixe
Linguistic Discovery, 2011 This paper presents the first detailed description of the phonetic structures of the endangered Mexican indigenous language Chuxnab?n Mixe, including a survey of the main features of the consonant system and acoustic measurements of the characteristics ...
Carmen Jany
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Arau lexikoen eta lexiko-ostekoen ezberdintasunaz: bokalen asimilazioa Lekeitioko euskaran
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1993 In this paper we explore a phenomenon of vowel assimilation in the Basque dialect spoken in Lekeitio. In fast or relaxed speech, an initial [-round] vowel of a determiner may optionally assimilate in all its features to the final vowel of a nominal stem,
José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta
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The Categorization of L3 Vowels Near First Exposure by Spanish-English Bilinguals
Languages, 2022 The present study examined the predictions the Perceptual Assimilation Model in the context of naïve bilingual speakers while also considering whether the predictions of third language (L3) models of morphosyntax could be extended to L3 phonology.
Kyle Parrish
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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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