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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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What happens to large changes? Saltation produces well-liked outputs that are hard to generate

Laboratory Phonology, 2018
Saltatory alternations ‘skip over’ intermediate sounds, as in k~s skipping over [t]. Recent research has argued that saltation is diachronically unstable and documented one possible cause of instability: Learners exposed to saltatory alternations may ...
Amy Smolek, Volya Kapatsinski
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Language and identity in the Windrush generation

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 300-315, March-June 2025.
Abstract This paper examines how the Windrush generation uses phonological and morphosyntactic elements of Jamaican Creole (JamC), London Jamaican (LonJam) and standard British English (SBE) to do identity work in interviews broadcast as part of a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.
Guyanne Wilson
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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker, Hamish Chalmers, Victoria A. Murphy   +2 more
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Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non‐syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
Abstract Background Children born with cleft palate ± lip (CP ± L) are at risk of speech sound disorder (SSD). Up to 40% continue to have SSD at age 5–6 years. These difficulties are typically described as articulatory in nature and often include cleft speech characteristics (CSC) hypothesized to result from structural differences.
Stephanie van Eeden, Cristina McKean, Helen Stringer   +2 more
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The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016
Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization.  When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes palatal (uku-lum-a → uku-luɲ-w-a).
Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver
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Affricate Palatalization in Polish: An Autosegmental Account of a Stem-specific Change

Studies in Polish Linguistics
The paper puts forward an autosegmental analysis of a consonant mutation which changes the stem-final dental affricates into retroflex affricates and spirants in Polish.
Sławomir Zdziebko
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Palatalizacje słowiańskie i koncepcja ich praałtajskiego pochodzenia

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SLAVIC PALATALIZATION AND THE IDEA OF ITS PROTO-ALTAIC ORIGIN Roman Jakobson was the first to suggest that the palatalization process in Slavic was a result of Altaic influence.
Marek Stachowski
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