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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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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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Wittgenstein's Attitudes [PDF]
, 2008 What's wrong with modalities in (Wittgenstein 1922)? In (Suszko 1968), the writer argued that "Wittgenstein was somewhat confused and wrong in certain points.
Schang, Fabien
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2026.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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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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Words without vowels : phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber [PDF]
, 2013 This article deals with the Tashlhiyt dialect of Berber (henceforth TB) spoken in the southern part of Morocco. In TB, words may consist entirely of consonants without vowels and sometimes of only voiceless obstruents, e.g. tft#tstt "you rolled it (fem)".
Ridouane, Rachid
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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Evaluating phonological status : significance of paradigm uniformity vs. prosodic group effects [PDF]
, 2009 A central concern of linguistic phonetics is to define criteria for determining the phonological status of sounds or sound properties observed in phonetic surface form.
Brinckmann, Caren, Raffelsiefen, Renate
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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 125-143, March 2026.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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