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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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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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Phonological development: toward a “radical” templatic phonology [PDF]
Linguistics, 2007 "Radical" templatic phonology is a template-based approach to segmental phonological representation. The central hypothesis is that the segmental phonological structure of words is represented as language-specific phonotactic templates, in the sense used in the developmental literature.
Vihman, Marilyn, Croft, William
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Greek wh-Questions and the Phonology of Intonation [PDF]
, 2009 The intonation of Greek wh-questions consists of a rise-fall followed by a low plateau and a final rise. Using acoustic data, we show (i) that the exact contour shape depends on the length of the question, and (ii) that the position of the first peak and
Ladd, D. Robert +4 more
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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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Phonological Remarks on Spanish Loanwords in English
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2021 This paper focuses on loanword phonology in the context of Spanish words that have become part of the English lexicon in the 20th century. The background section shows that attention has been paid to Spanish words used in English from a lexical point of
Estrella Ramírez Quesada
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Phonological dyslexia without phonological impairment?
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2004 RG, a patient with probable Alzheimer's disease, showed a severe impairment in nonword reading. RG's word reading was intact, for example, as demonstrated by her scores in standardised reading tasks, which were comparable to those of normal controls. No phonological impairment was apparent in speech production and comprehension.
Caccappolo-van Vliet, Elise +2 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013 Two problematic trends have dominated modern phonological theorizing: over-reliance on machinery of Universal Grammar, and reification of functional properties in grammar.
Dave Odden
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A split approach to the selection of allomorphs: Vowel length alternating allomorphy in Dutch
Glossa, 2020 In this article it is argued that the selection of allomorphs is distributed over two modules, viz. Vocabulary Insertion and Phonology. This is done on the basis of a case study of vowel length alternating allomorphs in Dutch.
Marijke De Belder
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