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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. [PDF]
Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for.
Hill, Nathan W.
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The retroflex r of Brazilian Portuguese: theories of origin and a case study of language attitudes in Minas Gerais [PDF]
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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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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Computational Approaches to Exploring Persian-Accented English [PDF]
Methods involving phonetic speech recognition are discussed for detecting Persian-accented English. These methods offer promise for both the identification and mitigation of L2 pronunciation errors. Pronunciation errors, both segmental and suprasegmental,
Miller, Corey
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Rhotics show considerable surface variation, which has precluded classification based on cohesive articulatory or acoustic properties. Yet they tend to display consistent patterns of behavior in relation to other phonemes within the phonological system ...
David Natvig
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Insights from ultrasound : enhancing our understanding of clinical phonetics [PDF]
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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Hemodynamic Evaluation of Nonselective \u3b2-Blockers in Patients with Cirrhosis and Refractory Ascites [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Nonselective \u3b2-blockers (NSBB) have been associated with increased incidence of paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction (PICD) and reduced survival in patients with cirrhosis and refractory ascites.
Angeli, Paolo +10 more
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The phonology and micro-typology of Arabic R
The R sound exhibits considerable variability both across and within Arabic dialects; one that covers place and manner of articulation, as well as the notorious emphatic-plain distinction.
Islam Youssef
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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber
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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Mispronounced lexical items in polish English of advanced learners [PDF]
The present study is a report on an experiment in which 20 English Department students, all advanced learners of English, were recorded having been asked to read a list of diagnostic sentences containing 80 words known to be problematic for Poles in ...
Szpyra-Kozłowska, Jolanta
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