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English Centering Diphthong Production By Polish Learners of English [PDF]

, 2009
The paper shows how British English centering diphthongs are adapted to the vowel space of Polish learners of English. The goal is to focus on complex vowels and the interaction of qualitative and quantitative features. Acoustic analysis revealed various
Balas, Anna
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Error Analysis of Phonetic Fossilization Uttered by English Department Students University of PGRI Semarang [PDF]

, 2016
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan tipe dan latar belakang fosilisasi fonetik yang diucapkan oleh mahasiswa semester 5 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris di Universitas PGRI Semarang tahun 2014/2015.
Ardini, S. N. (Sukma), Ouwpoly, N. L. (Nicolas), WL, M. Y. (Maria)   +2 more
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The acquisition of Sign Language: The impact of phonetic complexity on phonology [PDF]

, 2010
Research into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological development in a signed language. We report on an experiment in which nonword-
Bernhardt B. H., Boyes Braem P., Brentari D., Brien D., Chamberlain C., Chloe R. Marshall, Chomsky N., Clibbens J., Conlin K. E., Crasborn O., de Bree E., de Bree E., Demuth K., Dollaghan C., Gary Morgan, Gathercole S. E., Hamilton H., Herman R., Jakobson R., Karnopp L. B., Kathryn Mason, Klima E.S., Locke J. L., Mann W., Marentette P. F., Marshall C. R., McIntire M., Morgan G., Sandler W., Sheridan M., Siedlecki T., Smith N. V., Stampe D., Stokoe W. C., Sutton-Spence R., Vihman M., Wilcox S., Wolfgang Mann, Woll B.   +38 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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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, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

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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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From Phonological Rules to the Person Case Constraint. Monovalent vs. Bivalent Features in Grammar

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
In phonology, segmental content has been predominantly represented in terms of binary features. Although binary features may provide an elegant description of some segmental contrasts, it is far from clear that speaker/hearer’s knowledge about segments ...
Laura Bafile, M. Rita Manzini
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(Un)markedness of trills : the case of Slavic r-palatalisation [PDF]

, 2010
This paper evaluates trills [r] and their palatalized counterparts [rj] from the point of view of markedness. It is argued that [r]s are unmarked sounds in comparison to [rj]s which follows from the examination of the following parameters: (a) frequency ...
Zygis, Marzena
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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