Neuro-cognitive development of semantic and syntactic bootstrapping in 6- to 7.5-year-old children
The present study examined the longitudinal relations of brain and behavior from ages 6–7.5 years old to test the bootstrapping account of language development.
Neelima Wagley, James R. Booth
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On the way from morphology to phonology : German linking elements and the role of the phonological word [PDF]
German linking elements are sometimes classified as inflectional affixes, sometimes as derivational affixes, and in any case as morphological units with at least seven realisations (e.g. -s-, -es-, -(e)n-, -e-).
Nübling, Damaris, Szczepaniak, Renata
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The influence of orthography on phonemic knowledge: An experimental investigation on German and Persian [PDF]
This study investigated whether the phonological representation of a word is modulated by its orthographic representation in case of a mismatch between the two representations.
Indefrey, P. +2 more
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An Investigation of The Velar Nasal in Badini Kurdish Dialect
The velar nasal, also called "Engma" or "Angma", can be found in the phonologicalinventories of many languages across the world. Kurdish researchers vary in their opinions as to whether this sound is listed among the inventory of Kurdish language ...
Saeed A. Saeed, Laureen I. Naser
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Synchronic description to palatal area of native speakers in the city of Resistencia, Argentina
The contrast between the central voiced palatal fricative, /ʝ/, and the voiced palatal lateral approximant, /λ/, phonemes, characterised as an isolated and of poor functional utility opposition, is a phonological feature of Spanish in the Argentina NEA ...
Hugo Roberto Wingeyer +1 more
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Segmental and suprasegmental change in North West Yorkshire – a new case of supralocalisation ?
A number of phonetic and phonological changes have lately been observed in most geographical varieties of British English (e.g. Trudgill 1986 ; Foulkes & Docherty 1999 ; Britain 2002b ; Kerswill 2003 ; Stuart-Smith et al. 2004, 2007).
Stephan Wilhelm
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Relationships between phonological and morphological complexity have long been proposed in the linguistic literature, with empirical investigations often seeking complexity trade-offs.
Shelece Easterday +3 more
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Phonetic variability and grammatical knowledge: an articulatory study of Korean place assimilation. [PDF]
The study reported here uses articulatory data to investigate Korean place assimilation of coronal stops followed by labial or velar stops, both within words and across words.
Ahn +29 more
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The Nature of Gradualness for Changes in Place of Articulation Features of Vowels in Serial Optimality Theory: Evidence from Three Iranian Languages [PDF]
In the earliest version of Optimality Theory put forth by Prince and Smolensky (1993/2004), the Generator is allowed to apply more than one process on the input.
Mehdi Fattahi
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In this paper we look at two seemingly unrelated historical processes: affrication of the Old English (OE) palatalized velars [kj] > [tʃ], e.g., OE cild > PDE child, OE cīosan > PDE choose, and the Middle English (ME) vowel unrounding [y] > [i] and [ø] >
Kijak Artur
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