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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
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Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 Laryngeal contrast in European Portuguese has typically been described in the phonological literature in terms of an opposition between [+voice] and [–voice].
Michael Ramsammy, Patrycja Strycharczuk
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Dip and hat pattern : a phonological contrast of German? [PDF]
, 2008 Is the high plateau in a ‘hat pattern’ a phonetic artefact, or does it reflect a phonological feature? Can it contrast with a low plateau, i.e. a ‘dip pattern’?
Niebuhr, Oliver, Ambrazaitis, Gilbert
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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
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A Look at Diachronic Phonological Processes in Inthii Oy
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020 This study examines phonological processes from a diachronic view in the understudied West Bahnaric language Oy, Inthii village variety, Attapeu Province, Lao PDR.
Jennifer L. Daniell
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Word-Initial Geminates in Sardinian
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2015 It is reported to be uncommon for a language to display phonological contrasts between simplex and geminate obstruents: Italian and Japanese are among the few that do (Tsujimura 2007; Davis 2011).
Rosangela Lai
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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
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BMC PsychologyAn ongoing debate on the association between phonological processing and number knowledge concerns the extent to which they influence each other during early childhood.
Xin Chen +3 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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