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Acoustic analysis of rhotics in coda position in five- to seven-year-old children
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2021 This article studies the acoustic production of Central Calatan rhotics in a group of 90 boys and girls aged 5 to 7 years, in medial and final coda. An acoustic description is given by analyzing the number and type of components, both of the closure and
Jordi Cicres, Sílvia Llach
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Phonetic factors influencing /l/-rhoticisation in Greek [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigates phonetic factors – vocalic/consonantal context, duration, stress - favouring rhotic perception of the lateral approximant in Greek.
Botinis, Antonis, Müller, Daniela
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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2021 The rhotics, due to their different realizations, have been the object of study in many sociolinguistic and dialectological studies (Aguilera (2008), Botassini (2009), Callou, Moraes e Leite (2013), Almeida e Kailer (2016), Maciel (2018), Maciel e ...
Dircel Aparecida Kailer +2 more
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The role of gesture delay in coda /r/ weakening: an articulatory, auditory and acoustic study [PDF]
, 2018 The cross-linguistic tendency of coda consonants to weaken, vocalize, or be deleted is shown to have a phonetic basis, resulting from gesture reduction, or variation in gesture timing.
Lawson, Eleanor +2 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2020 This study examines if a listener’s exposure to nonrhotic dialects of English affects how they perceive rhoticity in words spoken in a Boston English accent. Listener judgments on the rhoticity of both nonce words and words in phrases were elicited through a 120-question survey.
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Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology
Glossa, 2021 Vowel prothesis is a phonological process by which a vowel is inserted at the beginning of a word. Vowel prothesis before a rhotic is attested in a number of languages of the world and has been discussed by Hall (2011), where the instantiation of this ...
David Bolter
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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber
Glossa, 2020 This article examines the adaptation of the French rhotic in Berber. In loanwords borrowed from French, the uvular fricative is systematically interpreted as a coronal tap, despite the fact that Berber has phonemic /ʁ/ and /χ/.
Mohamed Lahrouchi
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The paradox of Portuguese /Vr/-rhymes: Disentangling weight from length via structure-based sonority
Glossa, 2023 The assumption that Portuguese stress is weight-sensitive is supported by strong arguments. However, oxytones ending with open syllables remain a major problem for this claim, unless vowels can be independently proved to be heavy without being long.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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Insights from ultrasound : enhancing our understanding of clinical phonetics [PDF]
, 2016 This is the editorial from the journal "Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics", from a Special Issue entitled "Insights from Ultrasound". \ud \ud The timing of this special issue was in part inspired by the 6th Ultrafest conference in Edinburgh in 2013, a ...
Cleland, Joanne +2 more
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The retroflex r of Brazilian Portuguese: theories of origin and a case study of language attitudes in Minas Gerais [PDF]
Linguística, 2011 Some scholars have linked the emergence of retroflex rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese to language contact with indigenous peoples or the neutralization of posteriorized coda liquids.
Iiris Rennicke
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