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Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2023 Narayan CR.
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Lenition, perception and neutralisation
Phonology, 2016 This paper argues that processes traditionally classified as lenition fall into at least two subsets, with distinct phonetic reflexes, formal properties and characteristic contexts. One type, referred to as loss lenition, frequently neutralises contrasts in positions where they are perceptually indistinct.
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Lenition and morphology in Finnish
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019 This paper investigates an interaction between consonant lenition and morphology in Finnish. The language has a process of consonant lenition whereby underlying geminate consonants at syllable boundaries lenite (degeminate) when the addition of an affix makes the post-geminate rime bimoraic. A small class of possessor agreement affixes do not condition
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An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the pervasiveness of lenition in the sound systems of natural language, this class of patterns has eluded adequate characterization in previous theories of phonology. Specifically, previous theories have failed to capture formally the phonetic unity of the various lenition processes (e.g.
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Journal of Communication and Cultural TrendsThe 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 ...
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Tets´ǫt'ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification. [PDF]
Nat Lang Linguist Theory, 2023 Jaker A.
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An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Lenition in Sanandaji Kurdish [PDF]
مطالعات 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
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Is retroflexion a stable cue for distributional learning for speech sounds across languages? Learning for some bilingual adults, but not generalisable to a wider population in a well powered pre-registered study. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Goh HL, Onnis L, Styles SJ.
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A Notice on Lenition and Hardening
, 2021 Abstract This article provides the edition and the translation of a short anonymous treatise about Syriac bgādkpāt and written in Garšuni, the "Notice on Lenition and Hardening," which is preserved in MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Sachau 196.
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