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El español canario: un reflejo del cambio lingüístico debilitante en el mundo hispanohablante
Romanica Cracoviensia, 2022 Gran Canarian Spanish: A Reflection of Weakening Language Change in the Spanish-Speaking World The aim of the paper is to present a thorough description of the terms weakening and lenition in the ...
Karolina Broś
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Modelling opacity and variation in Gran Canarian Spanish apocope
Glossa, 2023 In this paper, we present novel data from Spanish spoken on Gran Canaria which show an interaction of two lenition processes: final consonant deletion and vowel apocope.
Aleksei Ioulevitch Nazarov +1 more
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Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish
Child Development, Volume 94, Issue 6, Page 1672-1696, November/December 2023., 2023 Abstract This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual) Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11‐ to 24‐month‐old infants (infant‐directed speech, IDS) and an adult experimenter (adult‐directed speech, ADS). The data were collected between 2016 and 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Christopher Cox +5 more
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Acoustic Variability of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish: A Pilot Study
Languages, 2023 Propelled by existing research on stop consonant variability in Spanish, this pilot study provides a preliminary acoustic analysis of stop consonant lenition exhibited by speakers of six different varieties of Spanish in Latin America and Spain to ...
Brianna Butera
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract Linguistic research on proper names has mostly focused on their semantic and syntactic aspects, with relatively little attention being paid to their phonology. This article provides an exploratory overview of issues surrounding the sound patterns of proper names.
Yu Tanaka
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann +3 more
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The Study of Lenition Processes in Lori Baghmalek Variety: Autosegmental Phonology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2017 The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze some of the phonological processes of lenition including spirantization, assimilation, deletion, and compensatory lengthening based on the principles of autosegmental phonology, i.e.
Abbasali Ahangar +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 117-151, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The—for European languages—large amount of bound elements in the older Insular Celtic languages and the array of phonological interactions within morphological and phrasal structures have lead several researchers to conclude that individual words play a lesser role in the grammars of those languages.
Stefan Dedio
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The phonetics and phonology of lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian case study
Laboratory Phonology, 2019 This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition.
Gianmarco Pitzanti, Jonah Katz
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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting.
Ryan Bennett +3 more
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