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Perceptual factors license vocalic contrasts in Chamorro
Glossa, 2022 In Chamorro, a typically neutralized contrast between mid and high vowels is preserved before intervocalic laryngeals. This preservation of contrast is shown to be an instance of patterned exceptionality.
Richard Lee Bibbs
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Spectral and temporal characteristics of Czech vowels in spontaneous speech
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2019 This paper provides a comprehensive account of spectral and durational characteristics of Czech monophthongal vowels. It improves on the existing literature (that almost exclusively focused on read speech) in that it examines vowels in spontaneous speech
Nikola Paillereau, Kateřina Chládková
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Vowel Raising in Nkpor Dialect: A Pattern of Sound Change
Linguistik Online, 2014 This paper explores a pattern of phonological change known as vowel raising in the Nkpor dialect of the Igbo language. Using a corpus of conversational Nkpor speech collected from the respondents through tape-recording, we presented data from an ...
Evelyn Ezinwanne Mbah +1 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
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Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 This article aims to demonstrate that dialectal and idiolectal variants of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibit rhotic metathesis (e.g. vidro > vrido ‘glass’), spontaneous nasalization of high vowels (as in diachronic hibernum > inverno ‘winter’ and non ...
Andrew Nevins, Paula Pinheiro Costa
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody +5 more
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Phonological characterization of the vocalic segments in Prata - MG
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2015 This article discusses the phonological characterization of vocalic segments through distinctive features, following a specification of features according to a more traditional approach.
Marlúcia Maria Alves
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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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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
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Quantity distinction in the Hungarian vowel system - just theory or also reality? [PDF]
, 2007 According to most current theories, the Hungarian vowel system involves 14 vowels that correspond to seven vowel pairs, each differentiated by quantity.
Reichel, Uwe D. +3 more
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