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Cross‐Linguistic Variations in Word‐Final Position: The Parametric Hierarchies, Connections and Networks

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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Cluster Trials Inference With CARE

Statistics in Medicine, Volume 45, Issue 13-14, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We show that cluster‐randomized trials—especially pragmatic designs—often exhibit substantial (but underappreciated in practice) heterogeneity in cluster sizes and structures, distorting inference. Our simulations—reassigning treatment in real data and varying imbalance in synthetic data—show that currently recommended methods (such as ...
Sergey Alexeev, Rachael L. Morton
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Long‐Term Speech Outcomes in Moderate‐to‐Severe Childhood Speech Sound Disorder: A Systematic Review

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children with moderate‐to‐severe speech sound disorder presenting to clinic want to understand prognosis for their child; however, there is unclear evidence as to the specific long‐term speech outcomes in this group.
Alexandra J. Garrett, Sermin Tukel, Angela T. Morgan   +2 more
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Rhotic Variation in Brazilian Portuguese

Languages
We present acoustic and articulatory data from an experiment designed to test the phonetic variability of rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the São Paulo variety. Ultrasound tongue imaging was used to examine the realisation of rhotics in a range of phonological environments. Our analysis reveals that word-initial and intervocalic fricatives
Michael Ramsammy, Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros   +1 more
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The Effectiveness of Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback in Articulation Therapy for Children and Adolescents With Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Speech sound disorders (SSD) may compromise speech intelligibility in children and adolescents, impacting communication, social interactions and academic performance. Ultrasound visual biofeedback (U‐VBF) has emerged as a promising tool for articulation therapy, providing real‐time tongue movement visualization, yet its evidence ...
Oi Yan Yiu, Wilfred Hing Sang Wong, Felicia Pokta, Agnes Yun Ting Fong, Winnie Wan Yee Tso, Patrick Ip   +5 more
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Cognitive control in cross-dialect phonetic imitation

Laboratory Phonology
This paper explores deliberative and automatic processes in phonetic imitation across geographic dialects. 136 American English speakers shadowed an Australian model talker and were instructed to imitate her, avoid imitating her, or neither.
Cynthia G Clopper, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler   +1 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
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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Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
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Rhoticity in Malaysian English / Kamalashne Jayapalan [PDF]

, 2016
This study seeks to examine rhoticity among Tamil speakers of Malaysian English. A variety of English is considered rhotic when an r in the spelling of the word is pronounced in word final environment before a pause (e.g. paper#) or before a consonant (e.
Kamalashne, Jayapalan
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