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Phonological resistance and innovation in the North-West of England. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Over the past few decades, studies of dialect levelling have concluded that phonological convergence amongst varieties of British English is rife. This review attempts to demonstrate the opposite, in the variety of English spoken in Liverpool.
Watson, Kevin
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/R/ Lenition in Quebec French: Evidence from the Distribution of 9 Allophones in Large Corpora [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
International audienceLenition is a process whereby a segment shifts to a "weaker" variant (i.e., closer to deletion in the history of languages). Lenition is also a positional phenomenon, typically affecting intervocalic or coda consonants before post ...
Stuart-Smith, Jane   +4 more
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Consonant lenition as a sociophonetic variable in Murrinh Patha (Australia) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In recent years, the typological and geographic range of languages subjected to sociophonetic study has been expanding, though until now Australian Aboriginal languages have been absent from this subdiscipline.
John Basil Mansfield, MANSFIELD, J
core   +1 more source

The rise of gemination in Celtic. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Res Eur, 2023
Stifter D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Lenition and Language Contact in Peru [PDF]

open access: yes
Lenition is defined as any type of articulatory consonantal weakening which can result in voicing, spirantization, or elision. Synchronically and diachronically, lenition has had a consistent and considerable influence on the development of Spanish as ...
Klee, Carol A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Phonemic Modification Strategies Used by Pahari ESL Learners while Learning English Consonant Clusters

open access: yesJournal of Communication and Cultural Trends
The current study attempted to examine different modification strategies used by Pahari ESL (English as Second Language) learners.  Pahari ESL learners use different types of modification strategies to acquire consonant clusters that are not found in ...
Kokub Khurshid Abbasi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Lenition in Sanandaji Kurdish [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2015
Adopting a descriptive-analytic method in the framework of Optimality Theory, this present study aims to analyse the phonological process of lenition, especially spirantisation – a process by which an obstruent becomes a fricative or an approximant- in ...
Muhamad Sediq Zahedi, Habib Soleimani
doaj  

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