Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Neurological Voice Disorders
ABSTRACT Neurological voice disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, laryngeal dystonia, and stroke‐induced dysarthria, significantly impact speech production and communication. Traditional diagnostic methods rely on subjective assessment, whereas artificial intelligence (AI) offers objective, noninvasive, and scalable solutions for voice analysis. This
Dongren Yao+2 more
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]
This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde+39 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Koncepcja podręcznika z ćwiczeniami do fonetyki i fonologii języka niemieckiego / The concept of a text- and workbook for German phonetics and phonology [PDF]
This paper attempts to present the concept of a text- and workbook for German phonetics and phonology intended in the first place for Polish students. The starting point for the considerations is – on the one hand – the reference to a phonetics survey ...
Miłosz Woźniak
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The weight of phonetic substance in the structure of sound inventories [PDF]
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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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Phonological templates and the lexicon
In past phonology literature, diacritics, brackets and other extra-phonological objects have been employed to identify morpheme boundaries and to differentiate words from affixes.
Semra Baturay-Meral
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Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability
In foundational works of generative phonology it is claimed that subjects can reliably discriminate between possible but non-occurring words and words that could not be English.
Coleman, John, Pierrehumbert, Janet
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On the way from morphology to phonology : German linking elements and the role of the phonological word [PDF]
German linking elements are sometimes classified as inflectional affixes, sometimes as derivational affixes, and in any case as morphological units with at least seven realisations (e.g. -s-, -es-, -(e)n-, -e-).
Nübling, Damaris, Szczepaniak, Renata
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