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Stop lenition in Canary Islands Spanish – a motion capture study
Laboratory PhonologyIn this paper, we investigate the phonological and prosodic effects of lenition in Canary Islands Spanish using new methodology. In the course of a motion capture study conducted in the field using an internet camera, we show that lip tracking can help ...
Karolina Broś, Peter A. Krause
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
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The (morpho)phonology of oral stop consonants in Proto-Tupi-Guarani: open issues, closed issues and new issues [PDF]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências HumanasThis paper provides an account of certain alternations that characterize all conservative Tupi-Guarani (TG) languages. Three processes are reconstructed for Proto-Tupi-Guarani (PTG): pre-vocalic oral stop lenition, pre-consonantal stop deletion, and ...
Fernando O. de Carvalho
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Lenition in contemporary speech from Gran Canaria: two corpus case studies
Phonica, 2022 This paper discusses the corpus of Gran Canarian Spanish gathered in 2016 in order to provide an in-depth sociolinguistic account of the lenition processes identified in the dialect.
Karolina Broś
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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Phonology Shaped by Phonetics: The Case of Intervocalic Lenition [PDF]
, 2010 The goal of this dissertation is to explore the phonetic bases of intervocalic lenition -- specifically, voicing and spirantization of intervocalic stops.
Kaplan, Abby
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A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops
Laboratory Phonology, 2017 An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited variants, in acoustic data.
Erich Round +2 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Lenition in Persian Phonological System [PDF]
, 2013 This study deals with lenition processes according to the theoretical framework of generative phonology to answer the cited questions: How phonological processes are applied in Persian phonological system as lenition?
Kambuziya, Aliye, Mobaraki, Mahmoud
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