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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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Abstract Background Approximately 50% of all young children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) also have problems with speech production. Research on speech sound development and clinical diagnostics of speech production difficulties focuses mostly on accuracy; it relates children's phonological realizations to adult models.
Anouk Scheffer +5 more
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On the phonetic realization and distribution of Costa Rican rhotics
La muestra analizada del español producido por hablantes del Valle Central de Costa Rica evidencia que la vibrante múltiple ha sido substituida por una rótica asibilada, al tiempo que la vibrante simple también se asibila en tres contextos fonológicos ...
Luz Marina Vásquez Carranza
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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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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment [PDF]
Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death.
Kasstan, J., Kasstan, J.
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Exploring vowel errors produced in nonword repetition in children with speech and language disorders
Abstract Background Accurate nonword repetition (NWR) is contingent on many underlying skills, including encoding, memory and motor planning and programming. Though vowel errors are frequently associated with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), several recent studies have found that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) produce high rates ...
Janet Vuolo, Taylor L. Gifford
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We /r/ Tongan, not American: Variation and the social meaning of rhoticity in Tongan English
Abstract The current paper argues that speakers of Tongan English, an emergent variety spoken in the Kingdom of Tonga, may use rhoticity to construct a cosmopolitan and globally oriented local social identity. A variationist analysis of non‐prevocalic /r/ in a corpus of 56 speakers reveals a change in progress towards rhoticity led by young females ...
Danielle Tod
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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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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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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 with triple therapy comprising telaprevir or boceprevir. [PDF]
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. Two first-generation protease inhibitors, telaprevir and boceprevir, have recently been approved for the treatment of ...
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