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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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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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Some notes on the Semerap dialect of Kerinci and its historical development
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021 This article investigates the historical development of a hitherto undescribed Kerinci variety, the Semerap dialect, from a comparative Malayic perspective.
Ernanda
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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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