The Accentual Types of Nouns in the Dialect of Novalja on the Island of Pag
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2010 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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Balto-Slavic accentual mobility [PDF]
, 2010 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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Rytų aukštaičių uteniškių inesyvo ir iliatyvo priegaidės: audicinis tyrimas
Baltistica, 2011 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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The acquisition of English L2 prosody by Italian native speakers: experimental data and pedagogical implications [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates Yes-No question intonation patterns in English L2, Italian L1, and English L1. The aim is to test the hypothesis that L2 learners may show different acquisition strategies for different dimensions of intonation, and particularly ...
Busa', Maria Grazia, Stella, A.
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 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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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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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]
, 2010 Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Entrainment profiles: Comparison by gender, role, and feature set
, 2018 We examine prosodic entrainment in cooperative game dialogs for new feature sets describing register, pitch accent shape, and rhythmic aspects of utterances.
Beňuš, Štefan +2 more
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]
, 2010 Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden +10 more
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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