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The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments
Hamann, Silke
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Double dissociation between conduction aphasia and conduction agraphia supports a ventro‐dorsal partition of the left arcuate fasciculus

open access: yesJournal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We identified in two awake surgery cases a postoperative double dissociation between phonological and graphemic output buffer deficits. Using lesion‐symptom mapping from ischaemic mini‐strokes and preoperative tractography, we demonstrated that the phonological (resp. graphemic) disorder fitted with ventral (resp.
Valéry Mandonnet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ming Shilu as Evidence of Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents in Siamese

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020
Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents (DVO) was part of a transformative series of sound changes that characterised all the Tai languages: the original voiced stops became either aspirated or unaspirated when devoiced.
Shinnakrit Tangsiriwattanakul
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley   +1 more source

The interaction of syllabification and voicing perception in american english [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The current paper explores these two sorts of phonetic explanations of the relationship between syllabic position and the voicing contrast in American English.
Jong, Kenneth de   +2 more
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Saussure’s Law, the nom. pl. in ‑ai, and the treatment of acute diphthongs in final syllables in Lithuanian

open access: yesBaltistica, 2017
This paper addresses the relationship of the Lith. nom. pl. endings ‑ai (‑aĩ) and ‑i, ‑ie (‑ì, ‑ìe) to each other and to their common source, the PIE pronominal nom. pl. in *‑oi. It is argued that the Proto-BSl.
Jay H. Jasanoff
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Papers from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018
This is a collection of 19 articles from the Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics held in 2017. The papers cover a full range of linguistic topics (phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax, historical and ethno ...
Pittayawat Pittayaporn   +3 more
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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

Mergers of Voiced and Voiceless Consonants in the Siamese, Lanna and Lao Languages

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
The voicing of voiceless sonorants (VVS) and the devoicing of voiced obstruents (DVO) in Tai languages not only reduced the number of consonants but also increased tonal distinctions .
Chomcha, Maria Timpika
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English‐speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within‐task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object–pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed ...
Matti Laine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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