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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Acoustic properties of Czech diphthongs [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis aims to contribute to the basic acoustic description of Czech diphthongs [ou, au, eu]. The diphthong is a unit characterized by the change of quality within its duration, thus dividing it into two parts.
Studenovský, David
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, October/December 2025.Using a walkthrough method of platform integration, we analyzed 156 TikTok videos using #ScienceofReading to capture the discourse of the space. Findings describe categories of Science of Reading content found on TikTok, as well as narrative trends and bodies of knowledge used to promote Science of Reading content on this platform. ABSTRACT The Science
Lindsey W. Rowe +5 more
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Perceptual assimilation of British English vowels to Spanish monophthongs and diphthongs [PDF]
, 2019 This study examined the perceived similarity between Standard British English vowels and Spanish vowels, including Spanish diphthongs, not usually considered in studies on cross-language categorization.
Juli Cebrian, Cebrian, Juli
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Oral Realisations of Orthographic Diphthongs in English Language
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2019 This study aims at presenting an analysis of how Brazilian students of English language realise the English orthographic diphthongs orally. We are based on the theoretical principles of Second Language Acquisition, Linguistic Variation in L2 and the ...
Alexandre STEIN, Dircel Aparecida KAILER
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 163-188, July 2025.Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
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Checking pronunciation of some monosyllabic words with diphthongs, and a few nominalised forms, with GK.
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