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A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio [PDF]
We review and elaborate an account of consonantal strength that is founded on the model of speech as a modulated carrier signal. The stronger the consonant, the greater the modulation.
Eno-Abasi Urua +5 more
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The rarity of intervocalic voicing of stops in Danish spontaneous speech
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
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]
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
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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The Concept of Lenition as the Phonemic Linguistic Phenomena [PDF]
The term 'lenition’ has numerous definitions offered in the Phonology of English language, some of which will be discussed in this study. Moreover, “Spirantization”, “approximantization”, “debuccalization” and “voicing” are changes that are counted as ...
Alkazwini, Azhar A.
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Word-initial lenition in Old English [PDF]
This document contains Old English words of the Old Norse origin, as found in Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2001) and Collins Online Dictionary (2022), and thus English words of the Old Norse origin which were loaned into Middle English are ...
Kobayashi, H (via Mendeley Data)
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Proéminence accentuelle : réalisations et représentation CVCV
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Guillaume Enguehard
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Consonant Change in Cognates Shared by Indonesian and Palembang Malay
This article describes the phenomena of sound changes, i.e., changes of single segmental sound of consonants, found in cognates shared by Indonesian and Palembang Malay.
Fauzi Syamsuar
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Frequency and morphological complexity in variation
Broad interest in probabilistic aspects of language has reignited debates about a potential delineation between the shape of an abstract grammar and patterns of language in use.
Josef Fruehwald +2 more
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