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Towards a phonological typology of Uralic languages

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
The paper focuses on phonological similarities between Uralic languages. The study is based on a dataset which includes 33 word-prosodic and segmental features of 28 Uralic languages or main dialects, including all traditional subgroups of the language ...
Karl Pajusalu   +4 more
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A scoping review of utilization of the verbal fluency task in Chinese and Japanese clinical settings with near-infrared spectroscopy [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
This review targets the application of the Verbal Fluency Task (VFT) in conjunction with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for diagnosing psychiatric disorders, specifically in the contexts of China and Japan.
Yufei Ren   +6 more
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Contrastive Feature Typologies of Arabic Consonant Reflexes

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Attempts to classify spoken Arabic dialects based on distinct reflexes of consonant phonemes are known to employ a mixture of parameters, which often conflate linguistic and non-linguistic facts.
Islam Youssef
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Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
Vowel prothesis is a phonological process by which a vowel is inserted at the beginning of a word. Vowel prothesis before a rhotic is attested in a number of languages of the world and has been discussed by Hall (2011), where the instantiation of this ...
David Bolter
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The rhythmic type of Persian: A phonological perspective [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2023
In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies have highlighted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively.
Anis Masoumi, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
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Prosodic Word Recursion in a Polysynthetic Language (Blackfoot; Algonquian)

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This paper focuses on prosodic adjunction at the Prosodic Word level in a polysynthetic language. I argue that recursion at a depth of more than two levels can only be generated by a theory which requires exact correspondence between certain syntactic ...
Natalie Weber
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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and ...
Laurence Labrune
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Substrata Residue, Linguistic Reconstruction, and Linking: Methodological Premises, and the Case History of Palaeo-Sardinian [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2015
This paper demonstrates that, within substratal research, prior to undertaking any comparative endeavour, it is necessary to conduct a thorough distributional analysis of the morphological regularities displayed by the language under consideration, so as
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
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On the status of non-iterativity in feature spreading

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
In the most commonly discussed cases, feature spreading is iterative, applying to all licit targets within a given domain. Early work within rule-based theories of phonology developed explicit mechanisms to induce both iterative and non-iterative ...
Adam G McCollum, Darya Kavitskaya
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