Free Allophonic Variation in Native and Second Language Spoken Word Recognition: The Case of the German Rhotic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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IsoglossThe two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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Rhotic variation in Costa Rican spanish
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 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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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
Glossa, 2021 This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and ...
Laurence Labrune
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, 2023 The highly variable nature of rhotics is behind their great potential as sociolinguistic variables. The advent of detailed sociophonetic studies has further increased the interest in exploring the many dimensions of r variation. The main focus of this chapter is on three processes involving rhotic variability.
Sebregts, Koen +2 more
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In the context of Judiciary or Forensic Linguistics, this paper shows the results of a study on rhotic consonants in prepausal position (in the spontaneous speech of central peninsular Spanish) in order to assess their forensic value for identifying speak [PDF]
Revista de Filología Románica, 2016 In the context of Judiciary or Forensic Linguistics, this paper shows the results of a study on rhotic consonants in prepausal position (in the spontaneous speech of central peninsular Spanish) in order to assess their forensic value for identifying ...
Beatriz Blecua, Jordi Cicres, Juana Gil
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Rhotic Variation in Brazilian Portuguese
LanguagesWe 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.
Michael Ramsammy +1 more
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What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? – acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics [PDF]
PhoneticaShuwen Chen, Peggy Pik Ki Mok
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Tongue shapes for rhotics in school-age children with and without residual speech errors [PDF]
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2019 Jonathan L Preston +2 more
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