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When dunes move together, structure of deserts emerges [PDF]
, 2012 Crescent shaped barchan dunes are highly mobile dunes that are usually presented as a prototypical model of sand dunes. Although they have been theoretically shown to be unstable when considered separately, it is well known that they form large ...
Grégoire, Guillaume +3 more
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Speciational view of macroevolution: are micro and macroevolution decoupled?
, 2006 We introduce a simple computational model that, with a microscopic dynamics driven by natural selection and mutation alone, allows the description of true speciation events.
Brigatti E. +7 more
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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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Inter- and intra-speaker variation in French schwa
Glossa, 2016 Quantitative constraint-based theories of optionality typically aim to model the frequency with which an individual speaker’s grammar maps one input onto various output forms.
Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Andrew Bayles
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Recent developments in phonology [PDF]
, 2012 Corno quase nenhuma outra disciplina lingüística, a fonologia passou por uma evolução turbulenta nas duas últimas décadas. Ao contrário da abordagem cöássica da Gramática Gerativa, que se concentrou na descrição de cadeias de segmentos fonológicos e de ...
Vater, Heinz
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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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The story of Oh: the aesthetics and rhetoric of a common vowel sound [PDF]
, 2007 Studies in Musical Theatre is the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to musical theatre. It was launched in 2007 and is now in its seventh volume.
Daley M., Dominic Symonds, Most A.
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Mind, Brain, and Education, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 298-310, November 2025.Abstract Dyslexia is a developmental word reading and spelling disorder affecting from 6% to 17% of school‐age children. Phonological processing deficits—marked by difficulties in representing or accessing the abstract units of spoken language—are widely recognized as a primary cause of reading difficulties in children with dyslexia.
Donald L. Compton +5 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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A Diachronic Analysis of Schwa in French
, 2012 Since the beginning of the formal study of language, linguists have struggled with the phonological problems posed by the mid-central vowel sound schwa.
Griffiths, Joshua M.
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