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What do Affrication and Vowel Unrounding Have in Common? The Case of Velar Palatalization in Old English [PDF]
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2022 In this paper we look at two seemingly unrelated historical processes: affrication of the Old English (OE) palatalized velars [kj] > [tʃ], e.g., OE cild > PDE child, OE cīosan > PDE choose, and the Middle English (ME) vowel unrounding [y] > [i] and [ø] >
Kijak Artur
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2002 Morphological palatalization is a phenomenon whereby palatal articulation (fronting of vowels, adding palatalization as a secondary articulation to consonants, changing alveolars to alveopalatals) is a property associated with an entire morpheme, not ...
Russell G. Schuh
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Palatalization in Central Bùlì
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2021 Palatalization is a process through which non-palatal consonants acquire palatality, either through a shift in place of articulation from a non-palatal region to the hard palate or through the superimposition of palatal qualities on a non-palatal ...
George Akanlig-Pare
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The structural motivation of palatalization
Fórum Linguístico, 2020 This paper is about the structural motivation of the palatalization of coronal stops in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and cross-linguistically. It aims to explain why (a) coronal stop consonants are the typical targets of the process, (b) coronal stops are ...
Elisa Battisti, Ben Hermans
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On the Coronal Palatalization in Early Modern and Present-Day English
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023 In this paper we look at the case of coronal palatalization [t d s z] > [ʧ ʤ ʃ ʒ] in both Early Modern English (EModE) and Present-day English (PDE) with the aim to determine its major phonological factors (such as the context, triggers, etc.) and to ...
Artur Kijak
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Phonological Relations Between Palatalizers and the Phonemic System: A Case Study on Czech
LingBaWThis paper examines palatalization in Czech, focusing on its behaviour in the domain of noun-deriving suffixes. It argues that Czech palatalization is not an assimilatory process, but a repair mechanism triggered by structurally and lexically deficient ...
Anna Poĺomská
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Naturalness bias in palatalization: An experimental study
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016 In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment aiming to test the idea that it is easier to learn palatalization before a front vowel than it is to learn depalatalization in the same context.
Joanna Zaleska, Matías Guzmán Naranjo
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Palatalization of feminine marker in Northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study deals with a morphologically conditioned pattern of palatalization in feminine-marking morphemes in Ha’ili dialect of Arabic, as it is spoken by members of the Shammar tribe.
Wafi Fhaid Alshammari
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The Naturalness of Palatalization
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016 Introduction to the special ...
Martin Krämer, Olga Urek
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Palatalization in Ukrainian, Polish and Russian. A pilot 3D Ultrasound Study [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 The paper reports findings of a pilot 3D/4D ultrasound study on the articulation of palatalized coronal obstruents in Ukrainian, Polish and Russian. The study quantitatively evaluates the degree of palatalization looking at the relative dorsum frontings ...
Małgorzata E. Ćavar +2 more
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