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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

Consonantal Phonological Processes in Common Words between the Standard Persian Language and Hawrami Language (Hawramane Takht Dialect) [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2014
The purpose of this article is to study and describe the consonantal phonological processes in common words between the standard Persian language and Hawrami language (Hawramane Takht dialect), one of the members of the new northwest Iranian family of ...
Seyyed Mahdi Sadjadi, Aleyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuzia   +1 more
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With or Without a System: How Category‐Specific and System‐Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosodic constituents in the representation of consonantal sequences in Polish [PDF]

, 2013
The aim of this paper is to show what role prosodic constituents, especially the foot and the prosodic word play in Polish phonology. The focus is placed on their function in the representation of extrasyllabic consonants in word-initial, word-medial ...
Rochoń, Marzena
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

Conformity to the obligatory contour principle and the strict layer hypothesis: the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
This research investigates how the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese is motivated by conformity to the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) and the Strict Layer Hypothesis (SLH) in light of Optimality Theory (OT) as a framework.
Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
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The Recognition of Phonologically Assimilated Words Does Not Depend on Specific Language Experience [PDF]

Cognitive Science, 2006
AbstractIn a series of 5 experiments, we investigated whether the processing of phonologically assimilated utterances is influenced by language learning. Previous experiments had shown that phonological assimilations, such as /lean#bacon/→ [leam bacon], are compensated for in perception.
Mitterer, H., Csépe, V., Honbolygo, F., Blomert, L.   +3 more
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Advances in the Historical Linguistics of Signed Languages

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Scholarship in the field of sign historical linguistics has made important progress in recent years. Here we survey this progress in three areas of research that have received the most attention to date, namely, (i) qualitative approaches to understanding the typical pathways of diachronic change in signed languages, (ii) quantitative ...
Justin M. Power, David Quinto‐Pozos, Danny Law   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eléments caractéristiques de la phonologie structurale du mboxo, bantu C21 (République du Congo) [PDF]

Revue Hybrides
This study analyzes, according to the structural model, the functioning of the fundamental elements (phonemes, tonems and syllable) of the phonology of Mboxó, a language of the Bantu family of the area, spoken by the Mboxó, a population who inhabit Mbomo,
Guy-Roger Cyriac GOMBE-APONDZA
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PERUBAHAN BUNYI PADA BACAAN-BACAAN GHARIB DALAM ALQURAN MENURUT TINJAUAN FONOLOGI ARAB

Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017
As the language of the Qur’an, Arabic is not only owned by speakers of the Arab nation, but also belongs to all Muslims in the world. Then it should be better for all Muslims trying to learn and study the Qur’an since the early stage of their life.
Iswah Adriana
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