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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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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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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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Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English
Glossa, 2022 Retraction of /s/ to a more [ʃ]-like sound is a well-known sound change attested across many varieties of English for /stɹ/ words, e.g. street and strong.
Danielle Turton +3 more
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Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: Understanding the interchange of ‹ch(t)› and ‹th(t)› in Older Scots [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020 Alphabetic spelling systems rarely display perfectly consistent one-to-one relationships between graphic marks and speech sounds. This is particularly true for languages without a standard written form.
Benjamin Molineaux +5 more
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The initiation and incrementation of sound change: Community-oriented momentum-sensitive learning
Glossa, 2020 This article presents a theory of the initiation and incrementation mechanisms whereby individual phonetic innovations become community-wide sound changes.
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 We investigated the effects of lexical frequency and homophone neighborhood density on the acoustic realization of two neutralizing falling tones in Dalian Mandarin Chinese.
Yifei Bi, Yiya Chen, Yiya Chen
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The Genesis of Spanish /θ/: A Revised Model
Languages, 2022 This article proposes a revised model of the genesis of Castilian Spanish /θ/, based on (i) precise tracking across the Late Middle Ages of the orthographical d → z change in preconsonantal coda position and (ii) the potential for auditory indeterminacy ...
Ian Mackenzie
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Correlating features in the primordial spectra [PDF]
, 2012 Heavy fields coupled to the inflaton reduce the speed of sound in the effective theory of the adiabatic mode each time the background inflationary trajectory deviates from a geodesic. This can result in features in the primordial spectra.
Achúcarro, Ana +3 more
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