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The phonology of Japanese /r/: a panchronic account [PDF]
The aim of this study is to understand how /r/ emerged and developed in Proto-Japanese and how the conditions of its emergence shed light on its present phonological behavior.
Labrune, Laurence
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Which/r/Are you Using as an English Teacher? Rhotic or Non-Rhotic?
AbstractThere are many obvious differences between North American English (NAE) and British English (BrE)/r/phoneme, and a great majority of Turkish English teachers do not know which variant of the/r/they are using. It must be noted that such a case easily confuses the students. The articulation and production of North American English-r is ambiguous.
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From Latin to Spanish and Portuguese, the natural class of sonorant consonants – laterals, rhotics, and nasals – often underwent drastic phonological changes.
Lamar A. Graham
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A single case study of articulatory adaptation during acoustic mimicry [PDF]
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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On the r>h Shift in Kiên Giang Khmer
This paper presents an acoustic and perceptual study of the r>h shift in the variety of Khmer spoken in Giồng Riềng district, Kiên Giang province, Vietnam. In Phnom Penh Khmer, /r/ is realized as [h] in syllable onsets and onset clusters, and accompanied
James Kirby, Đinh Lư Giang
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Rhotics and rhoticity in Scotland : a sociophonetic study of Standard Scottish English
Cette thèse en sociophonétique anglaise combine les approches de la sociolinguistique variationniste et de la phonétique expérimentale pour étudier les rhotiques et la rhoticité en Écosse en anglais écossais standard. Grâce aux analyses auditives de 147 locuteurs écossais et aux analyses acoustiques fines de locuteurs de Dundee et de Kinross, l'extrême
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Phonology without Universal Grammar
The question of identifying the properties of language that are specific human linguistic abilities, i.e. Universal Grammar, lies at the center of linguistic research.
Diana eArchangeli +2 more
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Limitations of the influence of English phonetics and phonology on L2 Spanish rhotics
This study investigates L2 Spanish rhotic production in intermediate learners of Spanish, specifically addressing the duration of the influence of L1 English rhotic articulations and a phonetic environment involving English taps on the acquisition of ...
Michael Kevin Olsen
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Articulatory insights into language variation and change: preliminary findings from an ultrasound study of derhoticization in Scottish English [PDF]
<p>Scottish English is often cited as a rhotic dialect of English. However, in the 70s and 80s, researchers noticed that postvocalic /r/ was in attrition in Glasgow (Macafee, 1983) and Edinburgh (Romaine, 1978; Johnston and Speitel 1983 ...
Lawson, E. +2 more
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Phonetic choices realized by a person in a speech community are usually labeled in a positive or negative way, demonstrated by linguistic attitudes. Based on the methodology of Sociolinguistics Variationist, this article aims to assess the beliefs and ...
Luiz Antonio Xavier Dias
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