Pre-pausal devoicing and glottalisation in varieties of the south-western Arabian peninsula [PDF]
, 2007 A wide range of modern Arabic dialects exhibit devoicing in pre-pausal (utterance-final) position. These include Cairene [20], Gulf Arabic, San’ani [8], [18], Manaxah [19], Central Highland Yemeni dialects [1], Rijal Alma‘ (Asiri p.c.), Central Sudanese (
Watson, JCE, Asiri, Y
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Investigating variation in Arabic intonation : : the case for a multi-level corpus approach [PDF]
, 2014 This paper provides a first description of the intonational patterns of San‘aani Arabic (SA, the dialect of Arabic spoken in the capital of Yemen) and a comparison of these patterns with those observed in Cairene Arabic (CA), revealing differences ...
Abdel-Massih +51 more
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Dialect acquisition of glottal variation in /t/: Barbadians in Ipswich [PDF]
, 2007 This article considers dialect contact and second-dialect acquisition by adult and child Barbadian English speakers converging towards an East Anglian variety of English.
Patrick, Peter L, Straw, Michelle
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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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Overshooting Americanisation. Accent stylisation in pop singing – acoustic properties of the bath and trap vowels in focus [PDF]
, 2017 The paper addresses the problem of overshoot involved in singing accent stylisation. Selected phonetic features indexed as “American” and “Cockney” are analysed in the singing and speaking styles of a British vocalist, Adele.
Beal +54 more
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The influence of linguistic and social factors on the recent decline of French ne [PDF]
, 2002 In this article we present some results showing the decline in radio speech in the use of the French negative particle ne over the last forty years or so.
Armstrong, N., Smith, A.
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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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Vowel Aspiration and Glottalisation across Udihe Dialects: Phonetics, Phonology, Evolution, Typology
, 2022 The chapter discusses phonetic, phonological, evolutionary, and typological properties of two particular features in the vanishing Udihe language (Tungusic): vowel aspiration and glottalisation. In their evolution, traced from the end of the 19th century to the 2000s, two main aspects are distinguished: (1) a qualitative evolution from consonants to ...
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How Speakers of Different Languages Extend Their Turns: Word Linking and Glottalization in French and German [PDF]
Research on Language and Social Interaction, 2016 A speaker who issues a confirming turn starting with particles like yes, oui, ja, and so on, may mean to extend it and provide further material. This study shows that French and German speakers employ the same phonetic contrast to indicate the nature of that turn continuation.
Szczepek Reed, Beatrice Barbara +1 more
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South Arabian and Yemeni dialects [PDF]
, 2011 It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged, to ...
Watson, JCE
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