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Glossa, 2020 Rhotics show considerable surface variation, which has precluded classification based on cohesive articulatory or acoustic properties. Yet they tend to display consistent patterns of behavior in relation to other phonemes within the phonological system ...
David Natvig
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN EDO: AN OPTIMALITY THEORY APPROACH [PDF]
Езиков святThe study examines the phonological adaptation exerted on Edo loanwords of English origin. It examines the different strategies employed by the native speakers of the Edo language, and explains these in terms of the demand of the native phonology. This
Cecilia Amaoge EME
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Whole Segment Processes in Dogri
Arbitrer, 2023 The present paper aims to discuss the phonological processes including whole segment processes occurring in Dogri. It serves an introduction to the types of phonological processes and present examples from Dogri words exhibiting these processes and ...
Devina Krishna
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Phonological complexity and prosodic structure in assessment of Serbian phonological development [PDF]
Psihologija, 2010 In this research we investigate the relevance of phonological parameters in acquisition of Serbian language. Implementation of British Test of Phonological Screeing (TOPhS, van der Lely and Harris, 1999) has revealed that phonological complexity ...
Nevena Buđevac +3 more
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Phonological markers of information structure: An fMRI study [PDF]
Neuropsychologia, 2014 In this fMRI study we investigate the neural correlates of information structure integration during sentence comprehension in Dutch. We looked into how prosodic cues (pitch accents) that signal the information status of constituents to the listener (new information) are combined with other types of information during the unification process.
van Leeuwen, T.M. +9 more
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The influence of orthography in second language phonological acquisition
Language Teaching, 2021 We provide an exhaustive review of studies in the relatively new domain of research on the influence of orthography on second language (L2) phonological acquisition. While language teachers have long recognized the importance of written input—in addition
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Shannon L. Barrios
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages
Universal Journal of Educational ResearchPhonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan +1 more
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Mechanisms of sub-phonemic change in prescriptive bilingualism: The case of Mexican Plautdietsch
Glossa, 2022 This paper investigates the relationship between loanword adaptation and phonological borrowing by looking at at an enclave of the Mexican Plautdietsch speech community in Texas.
Roslyn Burns
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Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Language and CognitionIn sign languages, aspects of event structure have been shown to be systematically reflected in the phonological structure of verb signs, as proposed by the Event Visibility Hypothesis (EVH).
Julia Krebs +2 more
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Amodal aspects of linguistic design. [PDF]
PLoS 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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