Free Allophonic Variation in Native and Second Language Spoken Word Recognition: The Case of the German Rhotic [PDF]
The question of how listeners deal with different phonetic variant forms for the same words in perception has sparked great interest over the past few decades, especially with regard to lenited and regional forms.
Miquel Llompart +2 more
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Language and Learner Specific Influences on the Emergence of Consonantal Place and Manner Features [PDF]
This article focuses on the emergence of consonantal place and manner feature categories in the speech of first language learners. Starting with an overview of current representational approaches to phonology, we take the position that only models that ...
Yvan Rose, Natalie Penney
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What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? – acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics [PDF]
Shuwen Chen, Peggy Mok
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An Example from the Phonology-Phonetics Interface: Rhotics
Although the class of rhotics is not arbitrary regarding its phonological behavior thanks to its synchronic and diachronic stability and sonorant characteristic in syllable structures, it is arbitrary in terms of phonetic realizations.
Göktuğ BÖRTLÜ
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Tongue shapes for rhotics in school-age children with and without residual speech errors [PDF]
Jonathan L Preston +2 more
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Rhotic variation in Costa Rican spanish
The class of sounds classified under the umbrella term “rhotic” demonstrate considerable variability across, languages, dialects, and speech styles. This is no exception in Spanish, where rhotics have received considerable attention.
Matt Dearstyne
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Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones.
Magdalena Wrembel +3 more
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Connecting Structure and Variation in Sound Change
“Structured heterogeneity”, a founding concept of variationist sociolinguistics, puts focus on the ordered social differentiation in language. We extend the notion of structured heterogeneity to formal phonological structure, i.e., representations based
David Natvig, Joseph Salmons
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Limited acquisition and generalisation of rhotics with ultrasound visual feedback in childhood apraxia [PDF]
Jonathan L Preston +2 more
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Acquisition, retention, and generalization of rhotics with and without ultrasound visual feedback [PDF]
Megan C Leece, Jonathan L Preston
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