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The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1 [PDF]
, 2015 The problem of opacity presents a challenge for generative phonology. This paper examines the process of Nasal Assimilation in Polish rendered opaque by the process of Vowel Deletion in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), which currently is a ...
Iwan, Karolina
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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]
, 2010 Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
, 2018 n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 This article reports a study investigating the effects of the preceding context on palatalization of word-final alveolar stops by Brazilian learners of English.
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 Focusing the palatalization of coronal stops, a study with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese, in normal and deviant process, makes clear a significant influence of the linguistic context in the behavior of consonantal segments, causing phonetic ...
Carmen Lúcia Matzenauer-Hernandorena
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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
, 2004 We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 136-147, April 2025.ABSTRACT This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate the same social meanings with the variety as IG speakers. Results from a verbal guise experiment and metapragmatic stancetaking discourse suggest
Matthew John Hadodo
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Towards a typology of stop assibilation [PDF]
, 2009 In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless ...
Hall, Tracy Alan, Hamann, Silke
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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