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Balto-Slavic accentual mobility [PDF]
Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006) offers a useful introduction to the history of Balto-Slavic accentuation supported by an impressive command of the scholarly ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Prosodic description: An introduction for fieldworkers [PDF]
This article provides an introductory tutorial on prosodic features such as tone and accent for researchers working on little-known languages. It specifically addresses the needs of non-specialists and thus does not presuppose knowledge of the phonetics ...
Himmelmann, N. P., Ladd, D. R.
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Accent, Syllable Strucuture, and Morphology in Ancient Greek
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Korean "Tense" Consonants as Geminates
In this paper, I argue that Korean "tense" consonants are geminates which occupy two C positions in a CV-tier. This argument is supported by phonetic evidence such as a longer closure duration of the tense consonants and phonological evidence such as the
Choi, Dong-Ik
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Tonal stability and tonogenesis in North Germanic
The origin of North Germanic tonal accents is a question with a long history and a range of available answers. Although the basic facts are not in dispute, the accents’ historical development remains controversial.
Pavel Iosad
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Prosody, polyphony and politeness: A polyphonic approach to prosodic configurations common to French and Spanish [PDF]
From a theoretical perspective based on the Theory of Argumentation in Language (Théorie de l’Argumentation dans la Langue – TAL) and the Theory of Polyphony (Théorie de la Polyphonie Énonciative – TPE), the present study describes and analyses ...
Caldiz, Adriana Mabel +1 more
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The Accentual Types of Nouns in the Dialect of Novalja on the Island of Pag
The paper analyzes the accentual types of nouns in the dialect of Novalja on the island of Pag, based on the author’s own field research. Nouns are divided into accentual types with regard to the place and type of the accent (and subtypes with respect to
Silvana Vranić
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Rytų aukštaičių uteniškių inesyvo ir iliatyvo priegaidės: audicinis tyrimas
THE SYLLABLE ACCENTS OF THE INESSIVE AND ILLATIVE IN THE EASTERN LITHUANIAN SUB-DIALECT OF UTENA: THE AUDITORY RESEARCH Summary The results of auditory research on the shortened inessive and illative forms of the Eastern Lithuanian sub-dialect of ...
Rima Bacevičiūtė +1 more
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Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed Speech: a cross-linguistic study [PDF]
revious research has shown that, when hearers listen to artificially speeded speech, their performance improves over the course of 10-15 sentences, as if their perceptual system was "adapting" to these fast rates of speech.
Christophe, Anne +4 more
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