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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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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages

Universal Journal of Educational Research
Phonotactics 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, Mary Daniel Nimram   +1 more
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Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

Language and Cognition
In 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, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evie A. Malaia   +2 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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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, Amanda Dupuis, Diane Brentari   +2 more
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Evidences of Factorial Structure and Precision of Phonemic Awareness Tasks (TCFe)

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2015
To assess phonological awareness - a decisive skill for learning to read and write - it is necessary to provide evidence about an instrument construct to present trustworthy parameters for both empirical research and the development of educational ...
Dalva Maria Alves Godoy, Hugo Cogo-Moreira   +1 more
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Phonological evidence for morphological complexity in English proper names

Anglophonia, 2023
This paper presents the results and an analysis of a large dataset of complex English proper names such as Cambridge, Manchester or Washington, inspired by previous work on Dutch place-names (Köhnlein 2015).
Quentin Dabouis
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A phonetico-semantic analysis of verb-noun contractions in Yoruba

Studies in African Linguistics, 1986
This paper highlights the various studies which have been carried out to determine the rules which govern the elision of one of the vowels in a verb-noun concatenation where the verb is vowel-final and the noun vowel-initial.
B. Rotimi Badejo
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The Acquisiton of Word-final Clusters in French

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006
The structure of French syllables has long been controversial, particularly with respect to the status of word-final consonants. Some researchers suggest that word-final consonants are syllabified as codas, whereas others propose that these are onsets of
Katherine Demuth, Margaret Kehoe
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Conjoined Constraints and Phonological Acquisition

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003
Since the start of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), research on phonological acquisition has explored the explanatory potential of constraint theories.
Giovana Bonilha
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