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The Historical Phonology of Kriang, A Katuic Language [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This paper presents an analysis of the historical phonology of the Kriang language (< Katuic < Austroasiatic). Kriang is spoken primarily in Sekong province, Laos and may be divided into two primary dialects which I call Kriang Kaleum and Kriang Tha ...
Ryan Gehrmann
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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Koen Bostoen, Heidi Goes
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Computing and historical phonology [PDF]
Proceedings of Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology on - SigMorPhon '07, 2007 We introduce the proceedings from the workshop 'Computing and Historical Phonology: 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology'.
Nerbonne, J., Ellison, T.M., Kondrak, G.
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Proto-Tupi-Guarani had no palatalized velar stop [PDF]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2023 This paper addresses one of the open issues in the reconstruction of Proto-Tupi-Guarani (PTG) segmental phonology: The status of the *k -*kʲ opposition.
Fernando Carvalho
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/k/ lenition in Persian history: a Laboratory Phonology view [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 This article accounts for the acoustic grounds of the diachronic lenition of Old Persian /k/ to [ʧ] and [z] in certain verbal (present tense) and nonverbal forms and to [x] in the past tense of the same verbs, in /V__ [a, e]/ and /V__[t]/ contexts ...
Fahimeh Khodaverdi +2 more
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A Synchronic and Historical Look at Aklanon Phonology
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2022 Akeanon features a phoneme unique relative to many Philippine-type languages, which is a reflex of the proto-Bisayan *l and *-d-. This was initially described as a voiced velar fricative [ɣ], and later repositioned as both a consonant of an onset and a ...
Philip Rentillo +1 more
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Den historiske utviklinga til preaspirasjon i samiske språk
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 Preaspirasjon av ustemde klusilar er eit velkjent drag i dei fonologiske systema i dei samiske språka, som i nordsamisk [jahkiː] jahki ‘år.Nom.Sg’. Den er til stades i alle samiske språk som vi har kjennskap til, med unnatak av berre enaresamisk.
Pavel Iosad
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Revista Linguística, 2020 Diane Brentari is co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. She has published several books, such as Sign Language Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Shaping Phonology (2018).
Marília Uchôa Cavalcanti Lott de Moraes +2 more
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The historical phonology of Old English: a critical review
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2021 There is a widely accepted chronology of sound laws, covering the transition from Proto-West Germanic to Old English, found in every handbook of Old English.
Arjen Versloot
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The Creoloid Origins of Chinese
Bhasha, 2022 From 1513, Chinese mystified Western observers with its phonology and grammar. In the 19th century, von Klaproth, Lepsius and Karlgren extended the comparative method to Chinese and established Chinese historical phonology and grammar, but a lineage ...
van Driem, George
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