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Neurobiology of Language, 2022 Phonology is typically defined as the study of speech sounds of a language or languages and the laws governing them, particularly the laws governing the composition and combination of speech sounds in language. This definition does reflect a segmental bias in the historical development of the field and we can offer a more general definition: the study ...
William J. Idsardi, Philip J. Monahan
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2007 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family.
Torben Andersen
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
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Phonology or non phonology? That is the question (in intonation)
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2008 The paper would like to challenge the basic tenet of Autosegmental Theory of Intonation, i.e. that in non-tonal languages it is possible to deal with intonation in phonological terms.
Giovanna Marotta
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023 The article provides a descriptive account of the phonology of Kussummiya spoken in southwest Ethiopia. It is basically a qualitative study in that linguistic data are collected from native speakers by using elicitation technique. The collected data are
Wondwosen Tesfaye
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature of non-arbitrary relations between linguistic sounds and semantics. This review aims at illustrating the amount of findings obtained so far and to organize and evaluate ...
Schmidtke, David S. +2 more
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Artificial language training reveals the neural substrates underlying addressed and assembled phonologies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Although behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested two distinct routes of phonological access, their neural substrates have not been clearly elucidated.
Leilei Mei +8 more
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Languages, 2021 Aging in speech production is a multidimensional process. Biological, cognitive, social, and communicative factors can change over time, stay relatively stable, or may even compensate for each other.
Susanne Fuchs +2 more
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