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Introducing abstraction, diversity, and speech dynamics

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2019
The editorial provides an overview of the main themes that are covered by the seven papers that form part of the special collection.
Eva Reinisch   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Experiments show that learning about familiar voices affects speech processing in many tasks. However, most studies focus on isolated phonemes or words and do not explore which phonetic properties are learned about or retained in memory.
Allen   +93 more
core   +1 more source

The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source

BEA – A multifunctional Hungarian spoken language database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In diverse areas of linguistics, the demand for studying actual language use is on the increase. The aim of developing a phonetically-based multi-purpose database of Hungarian spontaneous speech, dubbed BEA2, is to accumulate a large amount of ...
Gósy, Mária
core  

Bengali Phonetics [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1921
Bengali is spoken by over 48 millions of people, and naturally it has many dialects. These dialects range themselves into four main groups—Western, North Central, Northern, and Eastern (with a South-Eastern sub-group). The morphological differences between the four groups of dialects are slight, except in the case of the South-Eastern sub-group; but ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Genus Alternans in the Early History of Ibero‐Romance: Textual Evidence from Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study revisits the diachrony of the Latin neuter gender in early Ibero‐Romance. The fate of the Latin neuter is counted among the most long‐standing and yet the most controversial questions in Romance historical morphosyntax. While there has been a long‐held belief that neuter nouns merged into the masculine gender in late Latin after ...
Ziwen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

The Nature and Nurture of Congenital Amusia: A Twin Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
In this article, we report the first documented case of congenital amusia in dizygotic twins. The female twin pair was 27 years old at the time of testing, with normal hearing and above average intelligence. Both had formal music lesson from the age of 8–
Jasmin Pfeifer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bilingual Preschoolers ’ Speech is Associated with Non-Native Maternal Language Input [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Published online: 11 Nov 2018Bilingual children are often exposed to non-native speech through their parents. Yet, little is known about the relation between bilingual preschoolers’ speech production and their speech input. The present study investigated
Benders, Titia   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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

Teaching the pronunciation of sentence final and word boundary stops to French learners of English: distracted imitation versus audio-visual explanations. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Studies on stop unrelease in second language acquisition have hitherto focused on the productions of Slavic learners of English (Šimáčková & Podlipský, 2015) and experiments on Polish learners of English; the latter show the tendency to release stops on ...
Bałutowa   +57 more
core   +2 more sources

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