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Modeling Long and Short-term prosody for language identification [PDF]
, 2005 International audienceThis paper addresses the problem of modeling prosody for language identification. The main goal is to validate (or invalidate) some languages characteristics proposed by the linguists by the mean of an automatic language ...
Rouas, Jean-Luc
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The rhythm of catalan: an analysis based on phonetically balanced texts
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2019 Linguists have classified languages according to their rhythmic properties in two main classes, namely, stress-timed and syllable-timed languages. According to existing studies, the position of Catalan on this scale is controversial.
Patrícia Marsà Morales, Paolo Roseano
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Automatic prosodic variations modelling for language and dialect discrimination [PDF]
, 2007 International audienceThis paper addresses the problem of modelling prosody for language identification. The aim is to create a system that can be used prior to any linguistic work to show if prosodic differences among languages or dialects can be ...
Rouas, Jean-Luc
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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On Syllable-Timed Rhythm and Stress-Timed Rhythm in World Englishes : Revisited [PDF]
, 2011 This paper draws attention to the tendency for stress-timed rhythm to be replaced by syllable-timed rhythm in a large number of new varieties of English.
Tetsuo NISHIHARA, VAN DE WEIJER Jeroen
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Rhythm in Korean verse, sico [PDF]
, 2015 Although rhythm in language and speech is elusive, the prosodic pattern in verse and the way language is aligned to music can reveal cross-linguistic differences in rhythm.
Jeon, Hae-Sung
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