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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 A growing body of evidence shows that brain oscillations track speech. This mechanism is thought to maximise processing efficiency by allocating resources to important speech information, effectively parsing speech into units of appropriate granularity ...
Vincent Aubanel, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim
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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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Prosodic form and identity effects in German
, 2013 Identity effects in phonology are deviations from regular phonological form (i.e. canonical patterns) which are due to the relatedness between words. More specifically, identity effects are those deviations which have the function to enhance similarity ...
Raffelsiefen, Renate
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions 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
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آداب الكوفةThe 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
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Input and the acquisition of suprasegmental phonology in English by Thai school children [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis discusses an experimental study whose aim was to find out whether English pronunciation teaching can be improved in Thai schools, where English has recently been introduced at the primary level.
Sumdangdej, Suthee
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Synchronic variation in Igede syllable structure
Afrika und ÜberseeThis 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
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vocoids and their prosodic distribution, with special reference to Italian and Arabic [PDF]
, 2003 This study attempts to characterize vocoids, i.e. vowels and semivowels, as a unified class of segments. In order to do so, it investigates the main phenomena concerning the quantitative distribution of these sounds, namely syllabic alternation, length ...
Bosisio Nicole, Bosisio, Nicole
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, 2014 (1)Overall probability to emit this syllable type;(2)probability to start or stop a sequence with this syllable type;(3)early jumps occur in the first half of the syllable, late jumps occur in the second half;(4)one jump down in the first half of the ...
Christine Pfeifle (561987) +3 more
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