Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 Ɛnyá (ISO: gey, Guthrie: D14), Mokpá (no ISO, Guthrie: D142) and Metóko (ISO: zmq, Guthrie: D13) are rare examples of East-Bantu languages containing labial-velars. The three languages form a branch of the Lega subgroup.
David Kopa wa Kopa, Birgit Ricquier
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Segmental and Prosodic Evidence for Property-by-Property Transfer in L3 English in Northern Africa
Languages, 2022 In this paper, I argue in favour of property-by-property transfer in the third language acquisition of English by L1 Arabic and L2 French speakers in Northern Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) based on a reanalysis of previous work.
John Archibald
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English Lingua Franca: New Parameters for the Teaching (and Testing) of English Pronunciation?
Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2021 The recent (2018) Companion Volume to the Common European Framework offers an overhaul of many of the scales of descriptors, including, notably, phonology.
Newbold, David
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The Study of the Poetic Features of Shamloo and Nazar Qabbani's Poems, Based on Jakobson`s Linguistic Theory of the Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2021 1. Introduction What is examined in this article is the method of selection and composition on the "paradigmatic axis" and "syntagmatic axis" in the poetry of two contemporary Persian poets "Shamloo" and the Arabic poet "Nizar Qabbani" from a linguistic
Somayyeh Aghababaee +1 more
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Perceptual evidence for the phonological adaptation of English vowels in Persian sound system [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 Loanword adaptations are transformations applied to words when they are borrowed into a foreign language. Words from a source language that are ill-formed in the borrowing language are thus transformed into well-formed words (Hyman, 1970; Yip, 1993 ...
Neda Bigdeli, Vahid Sadeghi
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Close but not proximate: The significance of phonological segments in speaking depends on their functional engagement [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 Converging evidence points to a difference between European and Chinese languages in the type of the initial units of phonological encoding for speaking. The phonological access points or “proximate units” (1, 2) are segmental in Indo-European languages but whole syllables in Chinese.
Padraig G, O'Seaghdha +2 more
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Grey matter alterations co-localize with functional abnormalities in developmental dyslexia : an ALE meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2012 The neural correlates of developmental dyslexia have been investigated intensively over the last two decades and reliable evidence for a dysfunction of left-hemispheric reading systems in dyslexic readers has been found in functional neuroimaging studies.
Bogdan Draganski +5 more
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Tracing the roots of phonetic variation in East Asian Englishes through loan phonology
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 One key aspect of Englishes in the Kachruvian Expanding Circle concerns phonetic features as they commonly bear traits of speakers native languages. This article explores language contact phenomena that are likely to cause L1L2 phonological transfer ...
Viktoriya L. Zavyalova
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Thinking outside the guttural box: fresh perspectives on vowel lowering in Qeltu
Espaces Linguistiques, 2023 This study revisits the process of vowel lowering in the Arabic dialect known as Qeltu, which is spoken in parts of northern Iraq and neighboring Syria and Turkey.
Abdulkareem YASEEN
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Phonological similarity between words is represented in declarative memory as spatial distance
Psychological Research, 2023 Space can be used as a metaphor to describe semantic and perceptual similarity. Research has shown that similarity and spatial information can influence each other. On the one hand, similarity entails spatial closeness; on the other hand, proximity leads
Cosimo Tuena +4 more
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