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Contrast preservation in Polish Palatalization

open access: yesGlossa, 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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Punktike ja palatalisatsioon. Lähivaade XIX sajandi esimese poole kirjaviisiuuendusele

open access: yesKeel ja Kirjandus
Palatalization 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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The Progressive Palatalization and the Old Novgorodian Pronoun vъxe

open access: yesSlavistica 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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An acoustic study of plain and palatalized sibilants in Ocotepec Mixe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In Ocotepec Mixe, the stem-initial sibilants /s tÉs ß/ undergo a palatalization process when the prefix /j/ is added. Descriptions of other Mixe languages report that this palatalization is realized either as addition of a glide (in the case of the ...
Avelino, Heriberto, Hamann, Silke
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Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a word-initial vowel.
Schwartz, Geoffrey
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

Underapplication in an Akan language game

open access: yesNordic 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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Rule Interaction Conversion Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Different types of interactions between pairs of phonological rules can be converted into one another using three formal operations that we discuss in this article.
Baković, Eric, Blumenfeld, Lev
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Revis(it)ing French palatalization

open access: yesGlossa, 2016
This paper explores the diachrony of French and reconsiders the classical analysis of French palatalizations. It is widely admitted that the transition from Latin dorsal stops to French palatal fricatives is triggered by an external palatalizing object ...
Ali Tifrit, Laurence Voeltzel
doaj   +2 more sources

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