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Data-Driven Analysis of European Portuguese Nasal Vowel Dynamics in Bilabial Contexts
Applied Sciences, 2022 European Portuguese (EP) is characterized by a large number of nasals encompassing five phonemic nasal vowels. One notable characteristic of these sounds is their dynamic nature, involving both oral and nasal gestures, which makes their study and ...
Nuno Almeida +3 more
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Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1151-1162, September 2026.ABSTRACT This comparative study explores young people's experiences of communication and decision‐making during parental divorce in two distinct cultural contexts: Türkiye and England. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 young people aged 11–16, the research addresses a gap in the Turkish literature by foregrounding children's perspectives, which
Gözde Doğanyılmaz‐Burger +1 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2026.Abstract The ability to detect statistical regularities in the input is widely assumed to support language acquisition, but its unique contribution to individual differences in language outcomes remains uncertain, especially in neurodevelopmental conditions.
Krisztina Sára Lukics +3 more
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Proto-Berber Mid Vowel Harmony
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018 The Berber nominal prefix allomorphs a-/ta- and e-/te- have been shown to be phonetically conditioned (Van Putten 2016). This paper will examine other cases of the Berber vowel e where it shows interchange with the vowel a, and will try to show that these alternations must also be seen as phonetically conditioned allophones of each other, through a ...
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Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 466-481, September 2026.ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich +2 more
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Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish
Glossa, 2020 Central Yiddish (CY) has inserted schwas that occur between long vowels or diphthongs and certain coda consonants. In the most restrictive varieties, schwas are inserted only between long high vowels or diphthongs and uvular or rhotic codas (as in /biːχ/
Marc Garellek
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The Effects of Language Dominance in the Perception and Production of the Galician Mid Vowel Contrasts [PDF]
Phonetica, 2015 AbstractAims: This study investigates the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel contrasts by 54 early Spanish-Galician bilinguals in the cities of Vigo and Santiago (Galicia, Spain). Empirical data is provided to examine the role of language dominance in the perception and production of Galician mid vowel contrasts in order to determine ...
Mark Amengual, Pilar Chamorro
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 426-448, September 2026.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 680-703, September 2026.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Phonetic Distinctiveness vs. Lexical Contrastiveness in Non-Robust Phonemic Contrasts
Laboratory Phonology, 2016 It is known that the mid vowel contrasts of Standard Italian distinguish few minimal pairs, may be lexically variable, and show some degree of phonological conditioning in certain varieties.
D. Robert Ladd, Margaret Renwick
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