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Schwa-Elision und die Wortprosodie des Luxemburgischen
Linguistik Online, 2017 In the young Germanic language Luxembourgish schwa can be dropped in the context before (and sometimes after) a sonorant and following a stressed syllable, e. g. Elteren > Elt_ren ‘parents’.
François Conrad
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The behavior of secondary consonant clusters in Swiss French child language
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013 This paper aims to determine the behavior of secondary clusters in Swiss French child language and, in doing so, provide a first step towards the identification of the order of acquisition of primary and secondary clusters.
Helene N. Andreassen
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The Pre-Schwa Vowel Lengthening in Selkup as a Sound Law; 124-133 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 The formerly unknown sound law that determined the rise of long vowels in Common Selkup can be formulated as follows: Proto-Samoyed (PS) high-rise and middle-rise vowels in the first syllable followed by a syllable with a PS Schwa undergo lengthening ...
Eugene Helimski
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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À la recherche du schwa : données, méthodes et théories
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 Ce travail sur les variétés du français se donne pour objet l’étude du schwa. Ce terme, qui était déjà utilisé par Arnauld et Lancelot dans la fameuse grammaire dite de Port-Royal (1660), n’est ni meilleur ni pire que des termes concurrents comme « e ...
Durand Jacques
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Schwa in Contemporary Standard Russian
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2000 This article explores a number of generalizations regarding the distribution of schwa in Russian and outlines an analysis in terms of Optimality Theory.
Tore Nesset
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 144-162, March 2026.Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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L’élision en français : une catégorie qui n’est plus catégorique [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2021 Elision is the least well investigated of the processes collectively known as ‘linking phenomena’ in French phonology. Data from a corpus of late 20th-century interviews show that 39% of new CV onsets created by forward resyllabification are due to ...
John N. Green, Marie-Anne Hintze
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