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Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications

open access: yesLingBaW, 2023
This paper examines the processes of expressive palatalization in the Basque diminutive. Basque has two forms of the diminutive, a list of inflectional suffixes and a method of palatalization with specific phonological requirements. A speaker will first
Jackson Wolf
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Sibilant Merger in the Variety of Basque Spoken in Amorebieta-Etxano

open access: yesLanguages, 2017
Basque has an apico-alveolar /s̺/, a lamino-alveolar /s̻/, and a prepalatal sibilant /ʃ/ that are represented by the letters <s>, <z>, and <x>, respectively. The apico-alveolar and the lamino-alveolar sibilants have merged in some areas
Oihane Muxika-Loitzate
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More on Sibilant Devoicing in Spanish Diachrony: An Initial Phonetic Approach

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The devoicing of sibilants took place in Early Modern Spanish, a phenomenon which has been considered problematic to account for due to its occurrence context (medial intervocalic position).
Assumpció Rost Bagudanch
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Cognitive biases on the social perception of the allophonic variation of coda /S/ in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
The allophonic variation of coda /S/ in the Florianopolitan variety of Brazilian Portuguese shows explicit associations between [ʃ] and the local stereotype of native resident – one who was raised in Florianópolis whose parents were also raised in the ...
Ana Paula Correa da Silva Biasibetti
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Acoustic-Perceptual Factors Both Maintain and Account for the Rarity of the Czech Trill-Fricative

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Czech has a sibilant inventory that contrasts at three places of articulation: Alveolar, a pre-post-alveolar, and palato-alveolar. The specific aim of this study is to examine the perception of the typologically rare Czech sibilant inventory and to ...
Phil J. Howson   +4 more
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Variation in Spanish /s/: Overview and New Perspectives

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The natural tendency for language variation, intensified by Spanish’s territorial growth, has driven sibilant changes and mergers across the Spanish-speaking world.
Eva Núñez-Méndez
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Effect of Mouth Mask and Face Shield on Speech Spectrum in Slovak Language

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
In this paper, with the aim of assessing the deterioration of speech intelligibility caused by a speaker wearing a mask, different face masks (surgical masks, FFP2 mask, homemade textile-based protection and two kinds of plastic shields) are compared in ...
Vojtech Chmelík   +3 more
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Analysis of Karelian Dialect Division Based on Algorithmic Clustering [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2021
The article presents an algorithm for clustering dialects by similarity of data in the dialect atlas of the Karelian language (Бубрих, Беляков, Пунжина 1997). By repeating the procedure we get a hierarchy of dialects.
Irina Novak, Martti Penttonen
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Associating the origin and spread of sound change using agent-based modelling applied to /s/-retraction in English

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
The study explored whether an asymmetric phonetic overlap between speech sounds could be turned into sound change through propagation around a community of speakers. The focus was on the change of /s/ to /ʃ/ which is known to be more likely than a change
Florian Schiel   +2 more
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Sibilantes em manuscritos do século XVIII

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2005
This article deals with the alternations in the use of sibilants, that is a linguistic variation found in documents from the first half of century XVIII in the scope of the Project Filologia Bandeirante.
Renata Ferreira Munhoz
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