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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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Voiceless stop lenition and reduction as linguistic and social phenomena in Concepción, Chile
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 This study investigates voiceless stop lenition in Chilean Spanish. Recent studies (e.g. Pérez 2007, Figueroa & Evans 2014 among others) have documented high levels of lenition of /bdg/ in Chilean Spanish.
Brandon M.A. Rogers +1 more
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Lenition and Phonemic Overlap in Rome Italian [PDF]
Phonetica, 2012 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to offer acoustic evidence for an unusual phonemic contrast in Rome Italian. In our corpus, about half of all tokens of intervocalic /p t k/ are realized with uninterrupted voicing (both word-internally and across word boundaries).
José Ignacio Hualde, Marianna Nadeu
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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Languages, 2021 Heritage language variation and change provides an opportunity to examine the interplay of contact-induced and language-internal effects while extending the variationist framework beyond monolingual speakers and majority languages.
Pocholo Umbal, Naomi Nagy
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The rarity of intervocalic voicing of stops in Danish spontaneous speech
Laboratory Phonology, 2022 Previous studies of the phonetics of Danish stops have neglected closure voicing. Danish is an aspiration language, but the aspirated stops /p t k/ are produced with shorter closure duration and less articulatory effort than the unaspirated stops /b d ɡ/.
Camilla Søballe Horslund +2 more
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Auditory disruption improves word segmentation: A functional basis for lenition phenomena
Glossa, 2018 This paper presents evidence that spirantization, a cross-linguistically common lenition process, affects English listeners’ ease of segmenting novel “words” in an artificial language.
Jonah Katz, Melinda Fricke
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Analysis of Phonological Processes of Consonants in Farimani Dialect based on Autosegmental Phonology [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2016 In Autosegmental phonology introduced by Goldsmith as an independent field of generative phonology, phonological representations are made up of different layers. In this approach, each feature or group of features that make a phonological contribution in
Azam Meykadeh
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Tree pruning in the structural approach to vowel reduction and lenition
LingBaW, 2021 The article scrutinises several vowel reduction and lenition phenomena by employing a model of syntax-like structural representations, i.e. Government Phonology 2.0.
Karolina Drabikowska
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Proéminence accentuelle : réalisations et représentation CVCV
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015 See ...
Guillaume Enguehard
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