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Laminal sibilants in Chamicuro [PDF]
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1990 From the introduction: This paper examines the phonological status of laminal sibilants in Chamicuro. Chamicuro is a Maipuran Arawaken language spoken in the Amazonian lowlands of Eastern Peru.
Parker, Steve
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Hypocoristic palatalization in Basque and historical applications
LingBaW, 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
Languages, 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
Languages, 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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Journal 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
Frontiers 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
Languages, 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
Applied 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]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The article presents an algorithm for clustering dialects by similarity of data in the dialect atlas of the Karelian language (ÐÑбÑÐ¸Ñ , ÐелÑков, ÐÑнжина 1997). By repeating the procedure we get a hierarchy of dialects.
Irina Novak, Martti Penttonen
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Glossa, 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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