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Segmental and suprasegmental change in North West Yorkshire – a new case of supralocalisation ?

Corela, 2018
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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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The Nature of Gradualness for Changes in Place of Articulation Features of Vowels in Serial Optimality Theory: Evidence from Three Iranian Languages [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران
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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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions 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

There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

PHONOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN INDONESIAN SYLLABIFICATION: INSIGHT FROM KOREAN LEARNERS

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
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, Young Hun Koh, Dong Hoon Kim   +2 more
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From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Framework for Rating and Assessing Media for Early childhood (FRAME): A multidimensional coding system for analysing children's media content

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Young children spend an increasing amount of time engaging with screens, including television viewing. Although most research has focused on the quantity of children's viewing, growing evidence suggests that the developmental effects of screen media depend on the quality and characteristics of the content.
Megan Gath, Cara Swit, Mia McLean, Ying Wang, Jen Smith, Damian Turner, Jenna Gawn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Historical Phonology of Western Karaim. The Process of Its Diversification into Dialects. Part 2. Supplementary Data on the Absolute and Relative Chronology of Sound Changes

Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies, 2019
This article is a supplement to Nemeth (2015), in which the absolute and relative chronology of the 18th and 19th century Karaim sound changes was presented with the aim of reconstructing how Middle Western Karaim evolved into its two well-known Modern Western Karaim dialects. Most of the conclusions formulated in Nemeth (2015) are further confirmed in
openaire   +2 more sources