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Predecessors of Contemporary Russian õ in the Toponymy of Ingermanland; 211-217 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 On the ground of certain conservatism in Finnic adaptations of imported Slavic place-names some reconstructions are presented of possible Slavic place-names of Ingermanland dated back to times before the first Slavic palatalization of velars (Finnish ...
Nikolai Kirsanov
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La palatalisation des consonnes vélaires en breton et britto-roman
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1989 In terms of palatalization, velar consonants form a homogeneous but already complex field of investigation. The following presentation does not aim to be exhaustive, but to explore a few avenues of research by ruling out a certain number of more or less ...
Alan-J. Raude
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The Progressive Palatalization and the Old Novgorodian Pronoun vъxe
Slavistica Vilnensis, 2015 The progressive palatalization is one of the most debatable questions of the historical Slavic linguistics. For instance, there is no plausible explanation for the Old Novgorodian pronoun vъxe which does not exhibit the effect of the progressive ...
Елена Аркадьевна Галинская
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Punktike ja palatalisatsioon. Lähivaade XIX sajandi esimese poole kirjaviisiuuendusele
Keel ja KirjandusPalatalization is not indicated in standard Estonian orthography. In the 1820s, Otto Wilhelm Masing proposed marking palatalization with a small dot placed beneath the vowel preceding the palatalized consonant.
Külli Prillop +2 more
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Underapplication in an Akan language game
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 This paper discusses the phenomenon of underapplication of palatalization in a Pig Latin game in Akan, a Niger-Congo (Kwa) language. Akan Pig Latin (henceforth APL), which is popularly known in Akan as Megesege, is a language game played usually by Akan
Kwasi Adomako
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Velar palatalization in Chilean public speech
Glossa, 2016 This is a socio-phonetic study that employs an acoustic analysis and a speech accommodation analysis following a variationist sociolinguistic framework. The acoustic analysis provides a phonetic characterization of the variation of /x/ in Chilean Spanish
Tanya L. Flores
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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Contrast preservation in Polish Palatalization
Glossa, 2016 There is a great deal of work on the role of contrast preservation in phonology and morphology (Flemming 1996; Padgett 2009; Hall 2011; Mackenzie 2013, among others).
Anna Łubowicz
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