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Morfemas “flutuantes” em Apurinã e a Tipologia dos Clíticos
Liames, 2012 A special class of bound morphemes, called “floating” morphemes, is examined in the Apurinã (Arawak/Maipure) language of Brazil. These “floating” morphemes share both properties of affixes and of independent words in a manner reminiscent of cliticization
Sidney da Silva Facundes
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Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal [PDF]
, 1999 Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants capacity to discriminate languages.
Mehler, Jacques +2 more
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Lhowa Phonology: A Typological Perspective
GipanLhowa exhibits a large inventory of forty-one consonant phonemes. In terms of points of articulation, it contains seven types of consonants, viz., labial, dental, alveolar, retroflex, palatal, velar and glottal. In terms of manner of articulation, it presents seven types of consonants, viz., stops, nasals, affricates, fricatives, trills, laterals and ...
Dan Raj Regmi, Ambika Regmi
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Three questions regarding the prosodic system of the Lithuanian language
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 This article addresses more questions than suggested by its title (those mentioned in the title are the most relevant and common ones) and provides very few answers. However, the key aim of this article is exactly that – to shed some light to the aspects
Vytautas Kardelis
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DETERMINING LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY BASED ON DIRECTED MOTION LEXICALIZATION PATTERNS AS A LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION: A CASE STUDY ON JAVANESE [PDF]
, 2016 Every language has directed motion constructions, but the lexicalization pattern of the constructions may differ from one language to another. The similarities and differences of directed motion lexicalization patterns can be used as the basis for ...
Subiyanto, Agus
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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GlossaThis study’s purpose was to analyse the influence of neutralisation on the perception of European Portuguese (EP) close-mid and open-mid vowels, and the gradient between the /i/, /e/, /ε/ and /a/ phonological categories.
João Veloso +3 more
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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The Emergence of the *ed in Word (De-)Formation
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsInflection and derivation are usually expressed by concatenative affixation, but there are nonconcatenative forms of morphological operations in the form of infixation, affixation of phonological features, templatic reshaping involving deletion ...
Martin Krämer +2 more
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Optimality Theory, Language Typology, and Universalist Metrics
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2018 In Russom (2011), I defended a universalist hypothesis that the constituents of poetic form are abstracted from natural linguistic constituents: metrical positions from phonological constituents, usually syllables; metrical feet from morphological ...
Geoffrey Russom
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