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Neutralizing gender in role nouns: investigating the effect of ə in written and oral Italian
Frontiers in CommunicationIn languages like Italian, all nouns have grammatical gender, which in most cases can be inferred from word endings. Nouns that refer to people may also convey information about the referent’s gender (i.e., semantic gender), as in the case of transparent
Martina Abbondanza +5 more
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Experimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 12, Page 1966-1977, December 1, 2025.Abstract Disuse induces a disproportionate loss of muscle force compared with muscle mass, with unclear effects on voluntary muscle activation (VA) and peripheral contractility. Furthermore, the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) as a disuse countermeasure remains uncertain.
Sofie K. Hansen +11 more
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Testo & Senso, 2021 Gli ultimi mesi hanno visto protagonista del dibattito politico l’uso dello schwa come morfema di genere neutro, adatto a far riferimento alle persone non binarie, che non si identificano né nel genere femminile, né in quello maschile.
Gloria Comandini
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Central, epenthetic, unmarked vowels and schwas : a brief outline of some essential differences [PDF]
Linguística, 2010 In this study, we examine the nature and content of some phonetic/phonological designations to refer to central vowels. Bearing in mind that epenthetic vowels and unmarked vowels are not always central vowels, we will argue in favour of a thorough ...
João Veloso
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2010 This paper reports a study on the perception of English syllabic consonants vs. schwa in word fi nal position at discourse level. Our aim is to fi nd out whether gender and accent play a signifi cant role in the pereception of potential syllabic ...
Inmaculada de Jesús Arboleda Guirao +1 more
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Linguistica, 2005 It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to the attaching affix, Chomsky and Halle (1968). In words such as hinder, meter, burgle the final sonorant of the roots /hindr/, /mitr/, /burgl/ is syllabic in ...
Tatjana Marvin
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Réajustements temporels et syllabiques après l'effacement optionnel du schwa en français
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 Cet article traite des réajustements temporels et syllabiques provoqués par l’effacement optionnel du schwa dans le démonstratif /sə/ « ce » en français standard moderne.
Beltzung Jean-Marc, Wallet Lucille
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Pizzas und Pizzen – die Pluralformen (un)assimilierter Fremdwörter im Deutschen
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2004 The paper takes plural formation as an example of morphological assimilation of loanwords into the German inflectional system and shows that the assimilation process proceeds in two steps.
Wegener Heide
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