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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
D. A. Morrison
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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Laboratory Phonology, 2013 AbstractThe present paper examines glottal stops and the glottalisation of word-initial vowels in Polish and German. The presence of glottal marking is studied depending on speech style (‘speech’ vs. ‘dialogue’), prominence, phrasal position, speech rate, word type, preceding segment, and following vowel height.
Malisz, Zofia +2 more
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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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Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2022 The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic /ðiː/ and preconsonantal /ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in some English varieties. Younger speakers, particularly from culturally and linguistically
Felicity Cox +2 more
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'Saying Things That You Can't Say Tomorrow Day'
Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, 2022 This article investigates whether Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner’s use of northern English linguistic features decreased from the band’s first album Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not (WPS) (2006) to their fifth album AM (2013); whether ...
Malene Ley
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The production of ejectives in German and Georgian
J. Phonetics, 2021 In German the release of word-final plosives in combination with syllable-onset junctural glottalisation gives rise to stop releases with the auditory and acoustic characteristics of ejectives (Simpson 2007).
E. Brandt, A. Simpson
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]
, 2010 Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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