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Retroflexion and retraction revised [PDF]
, 2009 Arguing against Bhat’s (1974) claim that retroflexion cannot be correlated with retraction, the present article illustrates that retroflexes are always retracted, though retraction is not claimed to be a sufficient criterion for retroflexion.
Hamann, Silke
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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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On Palatalization as a Phonetic Process
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1981 The process usually labeled palatization of dentals or velars, which results in alveopalatal affricates in many languages, is seen to be the result of two separate phonetic developments, (1) change in place of articulation of the stop, and (2) change in ...
Rankin, Robert L.
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Perceptual and acoustic cues of Polish coronal fricatives [PDF]
, 2003 On the basis of perceptual experiments we show that alveolo-palatal fricatives and palatalized post-alveolars are two separate sounds which are distinguished not only by Polish native speakers but also by German ones.
Hamann, Silke, Żygis, Marzena
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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 +2 more
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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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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster [PDF]
, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Diachronic labial palatalization in Xinguan Arawak
Liames, 2016 The goal of this short paper is to address additional facts related to the process of full labial palatalization (or coronalization) proposed in Carvalho (2016a) for Yawalapiti, an Arawak language of central Brazil.
Fernando Carvalho
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Palatalization in Laomian: evolution and resistance
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Palatalization is a common phenomenon in the Laomian language of South-east Asia. This paper compares the phonetic bilabial, velar, and coronal consonants of Laomian and their counterparts in related languages. A phonological analysis of the evolution of
Yijia Zhang, Xiaoyu Jin, Li Liu
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