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Reconceptualizing the vowel space in analyzing regional dialect variation and sound change in American English. [PDF]
Fox RA, Jacewicz E.
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An analysis of post-vocalic /s-ʃ/ neutralization in Augsburg German: evidence for a gradient sound change. [PDF]
The study is concerned with a sound change in progress by which a post-vocalic, pre-consonantal /s-ʃ/ contrast in the standard variety of German (SG) in words such as west/wäscht (/vɛst/~/vɛʃt/, west/washes) is influencing the Augsburg German (AG ...
Bukmaier V, Harrington J, Kleber F.
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Hugo Schuchardt's criticism of the neogrammarians in his «Über die Lautgesetze: Gegen die Junggrammatiker» is the starting point of this paper. In Schuchardt's critical arguments interesting ideas may be found that still deserve our attention.
Miren Lourdes Oñederra
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Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German
:Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel ...
C. Carignan +7 more
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They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara
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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Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change
Jennifer Hay +3 more
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“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]
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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Connecting Structure and Variation in Sound Change
“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, J. Salmons
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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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