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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset ...
Katerina A. Tetzloff
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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A model of rapid phonotactic generalization [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015 The phonotactics of a language describes the ways in which the sounds of the language combine to form possible morphemes and words. Humans can learn phonotactic patterns at the level of abstract classes, generalizing across sounds (e.g., “words can end in a voiced stop”).
Tal Linzen, Timothy J. O'Donnell
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Infant and Child Development, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT The goal of this work is to determine how young children acquire domain‐general sequential patterns that we hypothesize underlie language learning. Participants included 26 typically developing children, aged 5.0 to 8.9 (years.months; 12 female).
Leah Sack +3 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Samoan root phonotactics: Digging deeper into the data
Linguistic Discovery, 2013 This article gives a detailed quantitative account of Samoan root phonotactics. In particular, count data is given in eleven tables of segment frequencies (i.e., consonants, short and long vowels, diphthongs) and frequencies of combinations of segments ...
John Alderete, Mark Bradshaw
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 4, July 2026.ABSTRACT Human newborns are able to discriminate between certain languages but not others. This ability has long been attributed to sensitivity to rhythm—the temporal regularities in speech of different languages. Here, we demonstrate through a series of computational simulations that this discrimination behavior can be achieved using no temporal ...
Ruolan Leslie Famularo +3 more
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Segmentation cues in conversational speech: Robust semantics and fragile phonotactics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Multiple cues influence listeners’ segmentation of connected speech into words, but most previous studies have used stimuli elicited in careful readings rather than natural conversation. Discerning word boundaries in conversational speech may differ from
Laurence eWhite +2 more
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Speech Neurophysiology in Realistic Contexts: Big Hype or Big Leap?
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 63, Issue 12, June 2026.Speech neurophysiology is moving from controlled listening tasks to dynamic, socially rich interactions, challenging traditional methods. This shift promises deeper insights into how the brain processes and represents speech in real‐world contexts, while introducing new analytical complexities.
Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Emily Y. J. Ip
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