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Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study. [PDF]
Autism ResABSTRACT Autistic children are frequently said to speak with accents that markedly differ from those of their linguistic communities. To date, these anecdotal reports have never been tested or explained. We ran two perception studies using short audio recordings of autistic and typically developing children from the Campania region in Italy.
Beccaria F, Gagliardi G, Kissine M.
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The Ancient Greek Datives in ‐essi: Contact or Independent Innovations?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 357-381, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The Ancient Greek datives in ‐essi have posed a longstanding challenge in Greek linguistics, with their traditional categorisation as ‘Aeolic’ but their widespread presence across Aeolic and non‐Aeolic regions. This article investigates the origin and diffusion of this trait, examining both the early Greek evidence (in particular the Lesbian ...
Marta Capano, Michele Bianconi
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Exploring British accents: Modelling the trap–bath split with functional data analysis
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 773-805, August 2022., 2022 Abstract The sound of our speech is influenced by the places we come from. Great Britain contains a wide variety of distinctive accents which are of interest to linguistics. In particular, the ‘a’ vowel in words like ‘class’ is pronounced differently in the North and the South.
Aranya Koshy, Shahin Tavakoli
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 1-31, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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Temporal prepositions and intervals in Spanish : variation in the grammar of "hasta" and "desde" [PDF]
, 2015 In many varieties of American Spanish, the temporal preposition hasta 'until' is able to modify telic predicates in the absence of negation. Previous analyses argue for either a hidden negation or a special punctual reading of this preposition.
Bosque, Ignacio, Bravo, Ana
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OSSETIAN-BALOCH ISOGLOSSES [PDF]
Известия СОИГСИ, 2021 Иранские языки и диалекты распространены на огромной территории. Наиболее южным из иранских языков является белуджский. На крайнем северо-западе ираноязычного массива распространен осетинский, который доходит до 44° северной широты. Диалектная классификация современных иранских языков основана на их истории.
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Spatial evolution of human dialects [PDF]
, 2017 The geographical pattern of human dialects is a result of history. Here, we formulate a simple spatial model of language change which shows that the final result of this historical evolution may, to some extent, be predictable.
Burridge, James
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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]
, 2009 Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov +3 more
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Tocharian-Slavic lexical parallels – new comparisons
Linguistica Brunensia, 2019 The article begins with an overview of the previous literature studying the Tocharian-(Balto-)Slavic lexical and morphological parallels was summarized. In this context three new comparisons were presented: 1. Tocharian A kuk*, du. kukäṃ 'heel'; B kuke*,
Václav Blažek
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction
, 2023 Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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