Working Memory in Writing: Empirical Evidence From the Dual-Task Technique [PDF]
The dual-task paradigm recently played a major role in understanding the role of working memory in writing. By reviewing recent findings in this field of research, this article highlights how the use of the dual-task technique allowed studying ...
Olive, Thierry
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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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Life on the Edge: A sociophonological analysis of diphthong variation and change [PDF]
This paper presents an innovative socio-phonological analysis of dialect variation and change. The analysis uses sociolinguistic data regarding the diphthongs |au|, |ai| and |ei| in Mersea Island English, a variety of British English.
Amos, Jennifer
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К предпосылкам и етапам перехода и.-е. *s в *š в языках группы сатǝм
ON PRECONDITIONS AND STAGES OF THE TRANSITION OF IE *s TO *š IN THE LANGUAGES OF THE SATǝM GROUPSummaryThe data of the Aryan languages show that the process of transition of *s to *š-type sounds under certain phonetic (articulatory) conditions, which had
Джой Иосифовна Едельман
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Postalveolar fricatives in Slavic languages as retroflexes [PDF]
The present study poses the question on what phonetic and phonological grounds postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analyzed as retroflex and whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well.
Hamann, Silke
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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PHONOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN INDONESIAN SYLLABIFICATION: INSIGHT FROM KOREAN LEARNERS
This study is aimed at finding out how the differences in sound inventory and syllable structures between Indonesian and Korean influence the phoneme realization of Korean learners studying Indonesian.
Nur Utami Sari'at Kurniati +2 more
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The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1 [PDF]
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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