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Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2017
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
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

open access: yesJournal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2015
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

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1998
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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Phonetic Tonal Manifestations and Trends in Tone Change: A Case Study of the Yong-Deng Dialect in Northwest China

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
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

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1978
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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A study on intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness based on the application pattern of lateralization and nasalization rules in foreign-accented speech of Korean

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
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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DISTINCTIVE FEATURES ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE BORROWING WORDS IN JAVANESE LANGUAGE FOUND IN PANJEBAR SEMANGAT MAGAZINE 27th EDITION OF JULY 7, 2018

open access: yesKajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2019
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

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1990
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]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
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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