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Intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation, and its relationship to phonetic and phonological change
Anglophonia, 2020 This paper looks at intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation patterns in four dyads, recorded in the 1980s in the working-class community of Glasgow. We present the importance of this kind of interaction-based variation in sociolinguistic studies, since ...
Florent Chevalier
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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.
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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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Perceptual effects of lexical competition on Cantonese tone categories
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Speech perception can be shaped by factors such as lexical competition, synchronic variation, and language dominance. Listeners can use lexical information to categorize sounds and recognize words, but systematic variation may act to neutralize lexical ...
Molly Babel, Rachel Soo
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Adults’ Perception of Children’s Vowel Production
Children, 2022 The study examined the link between Korean-speaking children’s vowel production and its perception by inexperienced adults and also observed whether ongoing vowel changes in mid-back vowels affect adults’ perceptions when the vowels are produced by ...
Tae-Jin Yoon, Seunghee Ha
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Open Linguistics, 2023 The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed.
Molina García Álvaro
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Zum Inhalt und zur Sprache der Einträge im Görlitzer Roten Buch aus dem 14. Jahrhundert (1351–1360)
Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2023 The aim of the paper is a presentation of the content and of the results of the phonemic-graphemic analysis of the German records from the first decade of the second half of the 14th century, which come from the town council of Zgorzelec (Görlitz).
Piotr Owsiński
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Immediate Integration of Coarticulatory Cues for /s/-Retraction in American English
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Coarticulatory “noise” has long been presumed to benefit the speaker at the expense of the listener. However, recent work has found that listeners make use of that variation in real time to aid speech processing, immediately integrating coarticulatory ...
Jacob B. Phillips
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Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years: Static versus Dynamic Measures
LanguagesMost analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches.
Felicity Cox +2 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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