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Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study [PDF]
Autism Research, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 415-426, February 2025.ABSTRACT 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.
Federica Beccaria +2 more
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Estimating the relative sociolinguistic salience of segmental variables in a dialect boundary zone [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 One way of evaluating the salience of a linguistic feature is by assessing the extent to which listeners associate the feature with a social category such as a particular socioeconomic class, gender, or nationality.
Carmen Llamas +2 more
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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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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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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
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Linguistik Online, 2017 Dialects in general are losing more and more their genuine structures, meaning the structure of the dialect has increasingly overtaken some standard variety structures.
Line-Marie Hohenstein
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What’s the matter with |U| and |I|?
Isogloss, 2022 In Element-Theory and similar approaches to the internal structure of segments, it is often assumed that the aperture element |A| is more sonorous and different in kind from the coloring elements |I| and |U| (Hulst 2015; Pöchtrager 2006; Schane 1984 ...
Heglyn Pimenta
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 428-442, July 2026.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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