Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages [PDF]
In this article, we show that the influence of Khoisan languages on five southwestern Bantu click languages spoken in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area is diverse and complex.
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)
The front vowels of Received Pronunciation lowered in quality over the twentieth century (Wells, 1982b; Fabricius, 2007; Bjelaković, 2017). Connections between choral singing and Southern Standard British English (SSBE) have been made in musicological ...
Edward Marshall +3 more
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An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish
This study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z ...
Philippe Boula de Mareüil +2 more
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Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics. [PDF]
Farrington C, King S, King S, Kohn M.
europepmc +1 more source
Apunts sobre la percepció de fricatius i africats en lleidatà [PDF]
L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar la percepció de la variabilitat observada en lleidatà entre: 1) africats i fricatius alveolopalatals sords i sonors en posició inicial i postconsonàntica i 2) presència o absència d'aproximant en fricatius ...
Carrera i Sabaté, Josefina
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Foreign language learners acquire L2 phonetic detail: Goose and Foot fronting in non-native English [PDF]
Whether late learners discern fine phonetic detail in second-language (L2) input, form new phonetic categories, and realize them accurately remains a relevant question in L2 phonology, especially for foreign-language (FL) learning characterized by ...
Baker +97 more
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Emphatic variation of the labio-velar /w/ in two Jordanian Arabic dialects. [PDF]
Al-Deaibes M, Al-Shawashreh E, Jarrah M.
europepmc +1 more source
A model for person perception from familiar and unfamiliar voices. [PDF]
Lavan N, McGettigan C.
europepmc +1 more source
El Rotacisme de /d/ intervocàlica en alguerès. Interpretació i anàlisi quantitativa de la variació [PDF]
Aquest treball descriu i analitza quantitativament la variació en el fenomen del rotacisme de /d/ intervocàlica en alguerès, a fi de determinar amb exactitud i validesa estadístiques els factors socials i lingüístics que determinen l'aparició de les ...
Cabrera i Callís, Maria
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Hong Kong Women Project a Larger Body When Speaking to Attractive Men. [PDF]
Lee A, Ng E.
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