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Factors in sound change: A quantitative analysis of palatalization in Northern Mandarin
Open Linguistics, 2023 Factors in sound change are still a major subject of debate in the field of linguistics, with the frequency factor perhaps being the most controversial.
Sha Liu
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On Palatalization as a Phonetic Process
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1981 The process usually labeled palatization of dentals or velars, which results in alveopalatal affricates in many languages, is seen to be the result of two separate phonetic developments, (1) change in place of articulation of the stop, and (2) change in ...
Rankin, Robert L.
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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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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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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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Vocoid-driven processes: Palatalization and glide hardening in Greek and its dialects
Glossa, 2016 The point of departure of this article is the processes that front vocoids induce as triggers in language. We start with a description of palatalization, using Standard Modern Greek and other Greek dialects as an empirical basis. We then introduce a new,
Mary Baltazani, Renaud Beeckmans
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Reconstructing phonetics behind the graphic system of Evenki texts from the Rychkov archive [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 This paper discusses the graphic system of manuscripts by Konstantin Rychkov (ca. 1910) containing texts in several dialects of Evenki (Tungusic) with Russian translation.
A.V. Arkhipov, С.L. Däbritz
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Russian L1 speakers’ palatalization in Estonian and the effect of phonetic speech training
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2021 The purpose of this paper is to find out whether palatalization contributes to Russian-accented speech in Estonian and whether speech training would help to speak more native-like. Although palatalization is a common feature of both Estonian and Russian,
Anton Malmi, Pärtel Lippus
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Glossa, 2016 In this article I provide a representational and a constraint-based analysis of four interacting palatalization processes operative in Modern Standard Latvian: velar affrication, velar palatalization, yod-palatalization and front vowel raising.
Olga Urek
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