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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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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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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Languages, 2021 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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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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Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2021 Resumo: Este estudo, sob o olhar da Sociofonética, apresenta uma análise acústica das variantes dos sons de r-forte na fala de descendentes italianos da cidade de Rio do Sul, Alto Vale do Itajaí - SC. Nessa região, encontramos a variante tepe ([ɾ]), como
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Articulatory analysis of palatalised rhotics in Russian [PDF]
, 2017 The present work investigated the articulatory variation of palatalised and plain rhotics and laterals in Russian. It has often been often observed that palatalised rhotics are diachronically quite unstable, which has been attributed to the articulatory ...
Stoll, Taja
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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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Glossa, 2020 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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The phonology and micro-typology of Arabic R
Glossa, 2019 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
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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