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Oralität, Prozess und Struktur

Linguistik Online, 2003
In an article published in 1981 together with Brigitte Schlieben-Lange, Harald Weydt emphasized the compatibility of structuralist methods and theory with facts of linguistic variation.
Johannes Kabatek
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Assimilation of the Batak Angkola Language in Pintu Padang, North Sumatra, Indonesia

Arbitrer
The objective of this research is to describe the assimilation process in the Toba Batak language, specifically as it is spoken in Pintu Padang Village, located in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Nadra Nadra, Rina Marnita, Khofifah Aisyah Amini   +2 more
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initial consonant cluster in sistani dialect- non- linear phonology [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2015
Autosegmental phonology has been presented by Goldsmith(1976) who introduced phonological representation as a multi-layer system and studied it in a multi-dimensional space where each dimension has its independent features.
Seyyed Farid Khalifelou, Mansoure Delaramifar   +1 more
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Discourse Phenomena as a Window to the Interfaces

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019
This paper examines the two lines of analysis that are generally pursued when dealing with discourse phenomena in the generative tradition: syntactico-centric and interface-based approaches.
Alba Cerrudo
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The phonological adaptation of loanwords in Italian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
The focus of this article is the phonological adaptation of loanwords in Italian, accounted for in terms of the phonological processes employed. It looks at the underlying forms in the source language and analyzes the changes that have led to the output ...
Gabriela Brozbă, Roxana Ungureanu
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Formal Phonology

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013
Two problematic trends have dominated modern phonological theorizing: over-reliance on machinery of Universal Grammar, and reification of functional properties in grammar.
Dave Odden
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Gesture and information structure: A case study on gestural topic markers in southern Italo-Romance [PDF]

Italian Journal of Linguistics
This paper investigates the interplay between information structure and ges ture from a generative perspective, focusing on a case study involving the ges tural topic marker [FINGER-BUNCH-OPEN-HAND] ([FBO]) in southern Italo Romance. This
Valentina Colasanti, Chiara Marchetiello
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Accounting for the stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model

Open Linguistics, 2019
Sound symbolism refers to stochastic and systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Sound symbolism has not received much serious attention in the generative phonology literature, perhaps because most if not all sound symbolic patterns are ...
Kawahara Shigeto, Katsuda Hironori, Kumagai Gakuji   +2 more
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Optimality Theory or Language in a Dodgeball Game

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2014
The aim of this paper is to present Optimality theory (OT), one of the most prominent contemporary linguistic theories developed in the 1990s by two phonologists Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (1991/1993, 2004).
Mia Batinić
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Modelling the acquisition of the Portuguese tap by L1-Mandarin learners: A BiPhon-HG account for individual differences, syllable-position effects and orthographic influences in L2 speech

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The present study provides a formal account for three types of experimental findings recurrently reported in the literature, yet not integrated into current L2 speech theories, namely individual variability, syllable-position effects and orthographic ...
Chao Zhou, Silke Hamann
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