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Beyond Prevalence: Understanding the Relationship Between Early Anatomic Factors and the Likelihood for Cleft Speech Characteristics. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Purpose This study investigates early anatomic determinants influencing the likelihood of cleft speech characteristics (CSCs) in children with cleft palate with or without lip involvement (CP+/−L). The primary objective was to identify critical anatomic factors within the first year of life that impact the presence of CSCs at Age 3.
Mason K, Kotlarek K, Davies A, Wren Y.
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolAbstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Nichols J.
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Articulatory-kinematic changes in speech following surgical treatment for oral or oropharyngeal cancer: A systematic review. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordAbstract Background Treatment for oral or oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (O&OSCC) often leads to problems with speech articulation. Articulatory–kinematic data may be especially informative in designing new therapeutic approaches for individuals treated for these tumours.
Tienkamp TB +7 more
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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.
Liu Sha
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Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance between the form and meaning of a sign. Compelling evidence from diverse areas of the cognitive sciences suggests that iconicity plays a pivotal role in the processing, memory, learning, and evolution of both spoken and signed language, indicating that iconicity is a general property of language ...
Iida H, Akita K.
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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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Palatal Myoclonus (syn. Palatal Tremor) [PDF]
European Neurology, 2008 Symptomatic palatal tremor is caused by a lesion in the triangle of Guillain and Mollaret and is associated with hypertrophic olivary degeneration that has multiple causes. Essential palatal tremor has no currently demonstrable cause and no accompanying physical or radiological signs. But it is probable that an organic genesis will become apparent.
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Seminars in Plastic Surgery, 2013 Our understanding of cleft palates has come a long way over the last few decades. A better understanding of the long-term consequences of a cleft palate and its effect on speech development challenges surgeons to not only effectively repair the cleft, but to also restore function of the palate for adequate speech.
Tomasz R, Kosowski +3 more
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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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