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Anglophonia, 2022 This phonetic study assesses the short-term efficiency of ecological training in glottal awareness for the reading of /h/-initial and vowel-initial words by French learners of L2 English.
Christelle Exare
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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting.
Ryan Bennett +3 more
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Migration, media, and the emergence of pidgin‐ and creole‐based informal epicentres
World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 414-428, September 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper makes a case for regarding Nigerian Pidgin (Naijá) and Jamaican Creole (Patois) as informal linguistic epicentres in the global English Language Complex. This requires a few modifications to current definitions of linguistic epicentres but leads to a sociolinguistically realistic and more comprehensive account of the profound ...
Christian Mair
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Ageing well: Social but also biological reasons for age‐grading
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 5-6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The theory of language change has worked primarily with four basic language change profiles: generational change, age‐grading, communal change, and stability. This paper focuses primarily on age‐grading, the process whereby each generation undergoes a specific language change at the same age‐related stage within their lifespan.
Míša Hejná, Anna Jespersen
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Patterns and timing of glottalisation [PDF]
Phonology, 2001 Through an investigation of glottalisation in several languages of North America, this article examines the role of perception in the grammatical distribution of segments. Specifically, we consider the hypothesis that perceptual factors on the timing of glottalisation in consonants determine the arrangement of such consonants phonologically.
Howe, Darin M. +1 more
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Using open quotient for the characterisation of vietnamese glottalised tones [PDF]
Interspeech 2005, 2005 Vietnamese is a tone language in which the tone is a complex bundle of pitch and voice quality characteristics. The present study is restricted to Falling tones (i.e. it does not cover tone C2, called nga in Vietnamese spelling, which has medial glottalisation and ends on relatively high pitch), and deals mainly with tone C1 (hoi).
Vu-Ngoc, Tuân +2 more
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Anglophonia, 2019 Creaky voice is a non-modal (non-neutral) speech feature occurring both at the segmental and suprasegmental levels of languages. It also performs paralinguistic, stylistic, sociolinguistic and extra-linguistic functions. It has been reported as prevalent
Claire Pillot-Loiseau +3 more
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham.
Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin
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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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Metrical structure in Scottish Gaelic: tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength [PDF]
Phonology, 2019 Scottish Gaelic displays a phonological contrast that is realised in different dialects by means of tonal accent, glottalisation or overlength. In line with existing analyses of similar oppositions in languages such as Swedish, Danish, Franconian and Estonian, I show that this contrast reflects a difference in metrical structure. Using the framework of
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