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Historical Phonology from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 This article serves as an attempt to reconstruct the approximate chronological order of the major sound laws between (Late) Proto-Finnic and Proto-Livonian.
Petri Kallio
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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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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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Historical phonology and morphology in the nineteenth century: abstractness vs. empiricism
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 In the first half of the nineteenth century comparative and historical linguistics focused mainly on morphological structure. Although important phonological discoveries were made, phonology played a subsidiary role to morphology.
András Cser
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ECEP: historical corpora, historical phonology and historical pronouncing dictionaries
English Language and Linguistics, 2020 This article presents theEighteenth-Century English Phonology Database(ECEP) in the context of historical phonology and historical corpora. The eighteenth century witnessed the proliferation of works on elocution and orthoepy and yet the field lacks searchable digital sources comparable to those available in other disciplines like historical syntax or ...
Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza
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Conspiracy in Historical Phonology
, 2001 Historical sound change has been modeled in Optimality Theory as a change in the ranking of constraints. In the simplest case, the surface effects of a constraint reranking can be stated in terms of a single traditional rewrite rule. However, there are also rerankings whose corresponding surface effects are diverse and complex, and cannot be stated as
Sean Crist
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BOOK NOTICE: THE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OF TIBETAN, BURMESE, AND CHINESE (2019)
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 In this historical linguistic treatise, Hill utilizes comparative linguistic data from Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese—three related languages with ancient literary traditions—to summarize the historical phonological relationships among these languages ...
Nathan Hill
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Advances in Munda historical phonology
, 2019 This talk presents recent advances Munda historical phonology. Based on the work on proto-Munda in Sidwell & Rau (2014), the talk will give an update on the current understanding of the consonantism and vocalism as well as our understanding of development of the prosodic structure in the Munda branch.
Felix Rau
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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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