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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 391-434, August 2025.Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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Rhotic variation and contrast in veracruz Mexican Spanish
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2012 Phonetic studies of Spanish rhotics report a wide range of allophonic variants of the syllable-initial trill /r/, which raises the question of whether the intervocalic contrast between /r/ and the tap /ɾ/ has been neutralized in many dialects. This
Travis G. Bradley, Erik W. Willis
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The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages [PDF]
, 2009 The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments
Hamann, Silke
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Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world [PDF]
, 2010 A typological overview of initial consonant ...
Iosad, Pavel
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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Phonetic Diversity vs. Sociolinguistic and Phonological Patterning of R in Québec French
LanguagesIn this study, we investigate the multifaceted realizations of the /R/ consonant in Québec French (QF) by combining sociolinguistic and phonological approaches.
Mathilde Hutin, Mélanie Lancien
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A single case study of articulatory adaptation during acoustic mimicry [PDF]
, 2011 The distribution of fine-grained phonetic variation can be observed in the speech of members of welldefined social groups. It is evident that such variation must somehow be able to propagate through a speech community from speaker to hearer. However,
Lawson, E. +2 more
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Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceIn recent work on Japanese phonology, /r/ has been argued to be a unique consonant in the Japanese phonological system, characterized by its default, unmarked and featureless nature.
Pellard, Thomas
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Investigating rhoticity in Scottish Standard English with sociolinguistic interviews and corpus data
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 108-126, March-June 2025.Abstract This paper approaches variable rhoticity in Scottish Standard English (SSE) from a methodological, data‐oriented perspective. The main focus is on how to integrate within a single sociolinguistic framework data that have been elicited under different conditions (sociolinguistic interviews vs. corpus data) and may therefore be incompatible when
Ole Schützler
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Investigating residual rhoticity in a non-rhotic accent [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reports on preliminary findings of a study conducted in the Black Country area of the west midlands of England. The small number of linguistic studies carried out in this region in the last 40 years have not found evidence of the continuing existence of variable rhoticity in the local speech variety.
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