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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]
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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Phonetic factors influencing /l/-rhoticisation in Greek [PDF]
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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Atrial natriuretic factor [PDF]
The discovery of the first well-defined natriuretic hormone, the Atrial Natriuretic Factor (ANF), has prompted research on its impact on volume regulation in health and disease.
A.L. Gerbes +99 more
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Acoustic analysis of rhotics in coda position in five- to seven-year-old children
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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Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology
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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The paradox of Portuguese /Vr/-rhymes: Disentangling weight from length via structure-based sonority
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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The perception of English-accented polish – a pilot study [PDF]
•Does familiarity with a specific foreign language facilitate the recognition and identification of that accent in foreign-accented ...
Radomski Marek +1 more
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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Heritage language variation and change provides an opportunity to examine the interplay of contact-induced and language-internal effects while extending the variationist framework beyond monolingual speakers and majority languages.
Pocholo Umbal, Naomi Nagy
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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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