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Characterizing Ranked Chinese Syllable-to-Character Mapping Spectrum: A Bridge Between the Spoken and Written Chinese Language

open access: yes, 2012
One important aspect of the relationship between spoken and written Chinese is the ranked syllable-to-character mapping spectrum, which is the ranked list of syllables by the number of characters that map to the syllable.
Baayen H.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

the The Articulatory Timing of the English super-heavy Syllable as Produced by Iraqi EFL Postgraduate Students:An Acoustic Study

open access: yesآداب الكوفة
  The current study investigates the phenomenon of articulatory timing and its variation between native speakers and foreign language learners. More specifically, the study focuses on the articulatory timing of heavy syllables in four multi-syllabic ...
Adhraa chiad, Balqis Rashid
doaj   +1 more source

Long-Term Speech Outcomes in Moderate-to-Severe Childhood Speech Sound Disorder: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Lang Commun Disord
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children with moderate‐to‐severe speech sound disorder presenting to clinic want to understand prognosis for their child; however, there is unclear evidence as to the specific long‐term speech outcomes in this group.
Garrett AJ, Tukel S, Morgan AT.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Synchronic variation in Igede syllable structure

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee
This study examines synchronic variation in the syllable structure of Igede, an Idomoid language spoken in Nigeria and concludes that the syllable structure of the language is currently undergoing change.
Kolawole Adeniyi
doaj   +1 more source

James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

West Slavic accentuation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
At the time of the earliest reconstructible dialectal divergences, which belong to the Late Middle Slavic period of my chronology (stages 7.0 - 8.0 of Kortlandt 1989a, 2003, 2008), the West Slavic languages represented the most conservative part of the ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimality Theoretic Account of Acquisition of Consonant Clusters of English Syllables by Persian EFL Learners [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2010
This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners.
Ali Akbar Jabbari, Leila Arghavan
doaj  

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