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Ejectives in Scottish English: a social perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper presents the results of an analysis of the realization of word-final /k/ in a sample of read and casual speech by 28 female pupils from a single-sex Glaswegian high school.
McCarthy, Owen, Stuart-Smith, Jane
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Book Reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Bruce Hayes: Introductory Phonology (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics). WileyBlackwell, Malden MA & Oxford, 2009. pp ix + 323. Markus A. Pöchtrager: The structure of length. Doctoral dissertation, Universität Wien, 2006. pp 286.
Magyar, Lilla, Sutter, Regula
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Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Introductory notes to a grammar of Cahuilla : [to appear in Linguistic Studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his 60th birthday] [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
These notes grew out of my preoccupation with writing a grammar of a particular language, Cahuilla, which is spoken in Southern California and belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. [...] The Introduction to the Grammar as a whole – of which two sections are
Seiler, Hansjakob
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A cross-linguistic database of phonetic transcription systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Contrary to what non-practitioners might expect, the systems of phonetic notation used by linguists are highly idiosyncratic. Not only do various linguistic subfields disagree on the specific symbols they use to denote the speech sounds of languages, but
Anderson, C.   +6 more
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Word final and intervocalic glottalised /t/ replacement in Estuary English: Variety of Essex

open access: yesLinguistic Research, 2016
The realisation of /t/ as a glottal stop [?] is a phenomenon described as occurring in word medial or final position (Docherty, 2010; Fabricius, 2002; Przedlacka, 2002; Roach, 1973). In English, sociolinguistic studies and phonological corpora (Schleef, 2013; Tagliamonte & Temple, 2005) have tried to frame and predict the context of glottal stops ...
openaire   +1 more source

A tonal analysis of contemporary Tai Khuen varieties

open access: yes, 2012
This paper presents an analysis of the tones of five contemporary Tai Khuen varieties in order to investigate the differences in the number of distinctive tones reported in the literature.
Owen, R. Wyn
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Variació fònica al català de Barcelona: l'accent xava [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
L'article és un estudi de sociofonètica urbana que mostra un recull dels patrons de variació fònica de l'accent barceloní anomenat xava, analitzats a la meva tesi doctoral. Aquest accent es caracteritza especialment per l'obertura de la vocal neutra.
Ballart Macabich, Jordi
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Creating a new town koine : children and language change in Milton Keynes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Koineization – the development of a new, mixed variety following dialect contact – has well-documented outcomes. However, there have been few studies of the phenomenon actually in progress.
Kerswill, Paul, Williams, Ann
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Truncation of some akan personal names [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines some morphophonological processes in Akan personal names with focus on the former process. The morphological processes of truncation of some indigenous personal names identified among the Akan (Asante) ethnic group of Ghana are ...
Adomako, Kwasi
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