An apparent-time study of an ongoing sound change in Seoul Korean: A prosodic account. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 In present-day Seoul Korean, the primary phonetic feature for the lenis–aspirated stop distinction is shifting from VOT to F0. Some previous studies have considered this sound change to be a tonogenesis, whereby the low-level F0 perturbation has ...
Choi J, Kim S, Cho T.
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Visual Speech Perception Cues Constrain Patterns of Articulatory Variation and Sound Change [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 What are the factors that contribute to (or inhibit) diachronic sound change? While acoustically motivated sound changes are well-documented, research on the articulatory and audiovisual-perceptual aspects of sound change is limited.
Jonathan Havenhill, Youngah Do
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Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2021 It is still unclear whether an individual’s adoption of on-going sound change starts in production or in perception, and what the time course of the adoption of sound change is in adult speakers.
Voeten CC.
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Individual differences in phonetic imitation and their role in sound change [PDF]
Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science, 2022 This paper explores the possibility that the spread of sound change within a community correlates with individual differences in imitation capacities.
Anne-France Pinget
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Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2020 This study investigates the link between the perception and production in sound change in progress, both at the regional and the individual level.
Pinget AF, Kager R, Van de Velde H.
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Hierarchical Inference in Sound Change: Words, Sounds, and Frequency of Use [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This paper aims examines the role of hierarchical inference in sound change. Through hierarchical inference, a language learner can distribute credit for a pronunciation between the intended phone and the larger units in which it is embedded, such as ...
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change
Glossa, 2019 This paper argues that inter-individual and inter-group variation in language acquisition, perception, processing and production, rooted in our biology, may play a largely neglected role in sound change.
Dan Dediu, Scott R. Moisik
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Neural Correlates of Indicators of Sound Change in Cantonese: Evidence from Cortical and Subcortical Processes. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2016 Across time, languages undergo changes in phonetic, syntactic, and semantic dimensions. Social, cognitive, and cultural factors contribute to sound change, a phenomenon in which the phonetics of a language undergo changes over time.
Maggu AR, Liu F, Antoniou M, Wong PC.
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Grammatically Conditioned Sound Change [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2014 Abstract In the first half of the 20th century following the Neogrammarian tradition, most researchers believed that sound change was always conditioned by phonetic phenomena and never by grammar. Beginning in the 1960s, proponents of the generative school put forward cases of grammatically conditioned sound change.
N. Hill
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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
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