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The stress-conditioned split of ŪNU, ŪNA as seen from the Croissant

open access: yesIsogloss
Minority speech varieties often retain insightful archaisms and innovations which are absent from the diachronic descriptive grammars of major national languages. One such innovation is the splitting of the Proto-Romance numeral adjectives ūnu ‘one.masc’
Fabian Zuk
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Emphasis spread in Arabic: evidence from Urban Jordanian Arabic

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
This study examines emphasis spread (ES) in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA), focusing on the phonological and phonetic mechanisms that govern its direction and domain. Emphasis, realized through tongue root retraction, affects both consonants and vowels and
Muath Algazo   +4 more
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Community interactions and phonemic inventories in emerging sign languages. [PDF]

open access: yesPhonology, 2021
Brentari D   +5 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Declarative Sentences in the Spontaneous Speech of Two Puerto Rican Communities

open access: yesLanguages
This paper applies the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) model of intonation phonology and the Spanish Tones and Break Indices (Sp_ToBI) annotation conventions to compare the intonational contours of declarative sentences in two varieties of Puerto Rican ...
Piero Visconte   +2 more
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The process of vowel harmony in Kurdish language in the framework of Autosegmental phonology

open access: yesTwejer
This study discusses the vowels harmony in Kurdish language. Vowel harmony like assimilation process is a very common process in most languages of the world. This process is studied by most phonological theories, such as generative phonology, autosegmental phonology as well as optimality theory.
Raz Aziz Ahmed, Sherwan Hussein Hamad
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