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This paper presents an empirical analysis of /l/-darkening in English, using ultrasound tongue imaging data from five varieties spoken in the UK. The analysis of near 500 tokens from five participants provides hitherto absent instrumental evidence ...
Danielle Turton
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Sonority as a Phonological Cue in Early Perception of Written Syllables in French
Many studies focused on the letter and sound co-occurrences to account for the well-documented syllable-based effects in French in visual (pseudo)word processing.
Méghane Tossonian +5 more
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Optimality theory and assessment of developing and disordered phonologies
Optimality theory (OT) is a comparatively recent linguistic theory which has been introduced in the early 1990s. OT's description of children's error patterns as patterns that are derived from a hierarchy of conflicting universal constraints has much ...
Froogh Shooshtaryzadeh
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Semantic Features as a Cause of Tensification in Korean
Nominal compounds of `NI + N2" in Korean can be classified into the following three major categories: co-compound, subcompound, and fusion. Among these three major categories, insertion of /t/' in the compounding process and subsequent tensification are ...
Khym, Hangyoo
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This study takes the Yong-deng dialect as a case study to investigate the phenomenon of tonal merging observed in Northwest Chinese dialects. It begins by examining the various monosyllabic tone patterns of the Yong-deng dialect, then supplements this ...
Li Yi
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A markedness analysis of initial consonant clusters in Aphasic Phonological Impairment: A case study
The purpose of this study was to assess both the theoretical and clinical value of markedness theory in phonological impairment in aphasia. A markedness analysis was carried out on initial consonant clusters in a single aphasic adult, at two points ...
Lesley Wolk
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This study aims to investigate the impact of application patterns of Korean phonological rules in foreign-accented speech on native speakers’ comprehension.
Esraa Hasan +2 more
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This study is intended to examine the sound change of borrowing word of foreign language in Javanese which is found in Panjebar Semangat magazine. The data is taken from Panjebar Semangat magazine 27th edition on July 7, 2018 and checked using old ...
Linda Aprillianti
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Contextual labialization in Nawuri
A spectrographic investigation into the non-contrastive labialization of consonants before round vowels in Nawuri (a Kwa language of Ghana) supports the notion that this labialization is the result of a phonological, featurespreading rule and not simply ...
Roderic F. Casali
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Amodal aspects of linguistic design. [PDF]
All spoken languages encode syllables and constrain their internal structure. But whether these restrictions concern the design of the language system, broadly, or speech, specifically, remains unknown.
Iris Berent +2 more
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