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Lenition of fricative sibilants in casual conversations in Basque

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental
This paper analyses lenition of lamino-alveolar and apico-alveolar fricative sibilants in Basque in casual conversations between speakers of the variety of Beasain (Central Basque dialect).
Dorota Krajewska
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Sibilants in Libyco-Berber [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Oriental Society, 2021
The second-century BCE Libyco-Berber inscriptions from Dougga (present-day Tunisia) have seven different signs for sibilants. In this article the sibilant system of these inscriptions and of the language they represent is studied in detail. It is shown that the different signs are not just graphemic variants but represent different pronunciations.
Kossmann, M.G.
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Bringing phonological oddities to the fore: The Basque sibilants

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2023
The contrast between apical and laminal articulations in Basque dento-alveolar sibilant consonants has traditionally attracted linguists’ attention. This distributedness distinction, as it has come to be known in the literature, was assumed to be very ...
Iván Igartua
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How variable are English sibilants? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Materials for Sonderegger et al. 2023 ICPhS paper, "How variable are English sibilants"
Jeff Mielke   +2 more
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“Irregular” -ě- after hushing sibilants in verbal suffixes in Middle Russian writing [PDF]

open access: yesSlovene, 2018
The paper attempts to identify the causes of the phonetically irregular -ě- after hushing sibilants in verbal suffixes in Middle Russian writing. The author suggests treating this linguistic fact as a systemic one, not connected with the spelling ...
Yana A. Penʹkova
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The Phonetics and Phonology of Sibilants: A Synchronic and Diachronic OT Typology of Sibilant Inventories

open access: yes, 2021
Questa tesi descrive in modo completo cosa sono le sibilanti da un punto di vista fonetico come fonologico, e analizza in che modi possono coesistere con altre sibilanti per formare un'inventario sibilantico. Basandosi su dati empirici, diverse tipologie di sibilanti vengono create, maggiormente negli ambiti dell'OT e BiPhon-NN.
Kokkelmans
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The Semitic Sibilants: Correspondences and Discrepancies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This research focuses on sibilant problems and irregularities in Semitic languages in the context of a general survey of the Semitic sibilants. It also investigates the issue of irregular sibilant correspondences of the sounds traditionally denoted by , ,
Schneider, Roey
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The History of the Sibilants of Peninsular Spanish from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
PhDIn an attempt to find a satisfactory and comprehensive explanation for the history of the sibilants in Peninsular Spanish, I explore the causal factors that were instrumental in motivating, promoting and diffusing the merger of voiced and voiceless
Allen, Dana Lynne
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Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
Retraction of /s/ to a more [ʃ]-like sound is a well-known sound change attested across many varieties of English for /stɹ/ words, e.g. street and strong.
Danielle Turton   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Ob oboznačenii zvukov v vodskom literaturnom jazyke [Problems of the Spelling System of the Votic Written Language] [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2021
On the ground of the first printed book (2004) are analyzed problems of the spelling system of the Votic written language, based on the Jõgõperä dialect which is today the sole existing dialect of this language. The Latin alphabet with some diacritics
Enn Ernits
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