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Tracing the roots of phonetic variation in East Asian Englishes through loan phonology
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 One key aspect of Englishes in the Kachruvian Expanding Circle concerns phonetic features as they commonly bear traits of speakers native languages. This article explores language contact phenomena that are likely to cause L1L2 phonological transfer ...
Viktoriya L. Zavyalova
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The Gavião, a native Amazonian group in Rondônia, Brazil, use three different traditional musical instruments that they identify as “speaking” ones and that are characterized by a very tight music-lyric relation through similar pitch patterns: a flute ...
Julien Meyer, Denny Moore
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Learning Language Representations for Typology Prediction
, 2017 One central mystery of neural NLP is what neural models "know" about their subject matter. When a neural machine translation system learns to translate from one language to another, does it learn the syntax or semantics of the languages?
Littell, Patrick +2 more
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]
, 2013 Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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Palatalization and glide strengthening as competing repair strategies: Evidence from Kirundi
Glossa, 2016 Alternations involving place-changing palatalization (e.g. t+j → ʧ in spirit – spiritual) are very common and have been a focus of much generative phonological work since Chomsky & Halle’s (1968) ‘Sound Pattern of English’.
Alexei Kochetov
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What tone teaches us about language [PDF]
, 2018 In ‘Tone: Is it different?’ (Hyman 2011a), I suggested that ‘tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so’, emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do.
Hyman, LM
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Nouvelles perspectives sur l’accentuation des emprunts en anglais contemporain
Itinéraires, 2016 This article investigates the stress patterns of loanwords in contemporary English, and in particular the primary stress location (/1/). Using three source languages (Italian, Japanese and French), it turns out that three distinct aspects of phonological
Pierre Fournier
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The weight of phonetic substance in the structure of sound inventories [PDF]
, 2013 In the research field initiated by Lindblom & Liljencrants in 1972, we illustrate the possibility of giving substance to phonology, predicting the structure of phonological systems with nonphonological principles, be they listener-oriented (perceptual ...
Abry, Christian +4 more
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