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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

On tone and segmental processes in Akan phrasal words: A prosodic account

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2004
Based on where and how phonological rules apply, studies in Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986; Kiparsky 1985; Pulleyblank 1986; etc.) distinguish between two levels in the phonology; namely, lexical and post-lexical.
Charles Ofosu Marfo
doaj   +1 more source

(Un)markedness of trills : the case of Slavic r-palatalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper evaluates trills [r] and their palatalized counterparts [rj] from the point of view of markedness. It is argued that [r]s are unmarked sounds in comparison to [rj]s which follows from the examination of the following parameters: (a) frequency ...
Zygis, Marzena
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Production of tense marking in successive bilingual children: when do they converge with their monolingual peers? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Children with English as a second language (L2) with exposure of 18 months or less exhibit similar difficulties to children with Specific Language Impairment in tense marking, a marker of language impairment for English.
Chondrogianni, Vasiliki   +1 more
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
wiley   +1 more source

Otro acento vizcaíno: Getxo

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1989
In this article, the prosodic system ofthe Basque dialect of Getxo is described and analyzed. This system can be considered as belonging to the Gernika pitch-accent type.
José Ignacio Hualde
doaj   +1 more source

SKOPE: A connectionist/symbolic architecture of spoken Korean processing

open access: yes, 1995
Spoken language processing requires speech and natural language integration. Moreover, spoken Korean calls for unique processing methodology due to its linguistic characteristics.
Lee, Geunbae, Lee, Jong-Hyeok
core   +1 more source

Repeated reading and Chinese oral‐reading fluency: Is prosodic sensitivity an indispensable link?

open access: yesJournal of Research in Reading, EarlyView.
Abstract Background This quasi‐experimental study tested whether prosodic sensitivity serves as a mediator through which an 8‐week repeated reading intervention improves Chinese oral reading fluency. Methods Seventy‐nine typically developing Chinese Grades 4–6 students, including 39 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group, were recruited ...
Li‐Chih Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining Autoregressive Models and Phonological Knowledge Bases for Improved Accuracy in Korean Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

open access: yesIEEE Access
Recent advances in deep learning have highlighted the importance of Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) conversion in natural language processing and speech synthesis.
Sung-Ki Choi, Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Minho Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Rule Interaction Conversion Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Different types of interactions between pairs of phonological rules can be converted into one another using three formal operations that we discuss in this article.
Baković, Eric, Blumenfeld, Lev
core   +2 more sources

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