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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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They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara
Languages, 2021 Vowel elision is common in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara connected speech. It also appears to be a locus of language change, with young people extending elision to new contexts; resulting in a distinctive style of speech which speakers refer to as ...
Sasha Wilmoth +2 more
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Laboratory Phonology, 2022 “Dialect B,” a diphthong raising pattern conditioned by a following obstruent’s surface voicing, was first observed by Joos (1942) among Canadian schoolchildren.
Katie Carmichael, Marie Bissell
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Relative Chronology of Sound changes in Iranian languages [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 Relative chronology in historical linguistics refers to temporal order of sound changes affecting a language. Because a sound change is restricted to a particular period of time in the history of the language in which it takes place, this enables us to ...
Esfandiar Taheri
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Languages, 2023 This research investigated contrastive perception of L1 phonological categories in Albanian–English bilinguals who returned to Albania after living abroad for over on average a decade.
Esther de Leeuw +2 more
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Changing Words and Sounds: The Roles of Different Cognitive Units in Sound Change [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018 AbstractThis study considers the role of different cognitive units in sound change: phonemes, contextual variants and words. We examine /u/‐fronting and /j/‐dropping in data from three generations of Derby English speakers. We analyze dynamic formant data and auditory judgments, using mixed effects regression methods, including generalized additive ...
Soskuthy, Marton +3 more
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Factors in sound change: A quantitative analysis of palatalization in Northern Mandarin
Open Linguistics, 2023 Factors in sound change are still a major subject of debate in the field of linguistics, with the frequency factor perhaps being the most controversial.
Liu Sha
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Linguistics, 2023 This paper investigates the geographical and structural diffusion of “Viennese Monophthongization” (VM). By means of a new numerical measure to assess and compare formant movement in 18 lexical items, we provide evidence that VM is an ongoing, regular ...
Vergeiner Philip C. +4 more
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Connecting Structure and Variation in Sound Change
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 “Structured heterogeneity”, a founding concept of variationist sociolinguistics, puts focus on the ordered social differentiation in language. We extend the notion of structured heterogeneity to formal phonological structure, i.e., representations based
David Natvig, Joseph Salmons
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Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why
Anglophonia, 2020 The secondary labial articulation which accompanies the post-alveolar approximant /r/ in English has attracted far less attention from linguists than the primary lingual one.
Hannah King, Emmanuel Ferragne
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