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Development of Syllable Structure in Azeri-speaking Children

پژوهان, 2019
Background and Objective: The length and complexity of syllable structure in the utterances of the children increase with ageing. According to the role of the syllable in the speech process, performance of developmental studies on syllable acquisition in
Majid Mirzaee, Zeynab Khoshhal
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The development of syllable structure in cape verdean creole

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
The paper examines syllable restructuring in the Santiago variety of Cape Verdean Creole. It is shownthat currently attested forms reflect to some extent the syllable structure in earlier stages of the language.
Andrei A. Avram
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The 'ideal square' of logographic scripts and the structural similarities of Khitan script and han'gul [PDF]

, 2002
A comparison of the Khitan Small Script and Korean han'gŭl shows a striking structural similarity of two essentially phonetic scripts that combine 'letters' into large blocks.
Tranter, Nicolas
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Final accent and lengthening in French

, 2008
International audienceAn experiment was carried out to examine the possibility of word-final F0 rise without lengthening in French. The results show that, although a variability is observed depending on speaker, syllable structure and syllable number ...
Meynadier, Yohann, Nakata, Shunsuke
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Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Comparing timing models of two Swiss German dialects [PDF]

, 2010
Research on dialectal varieties was for a long time concentrated on phonetic aspects of language. While there was a lot of work done on segmental aspects, suprasegmentals remained unexploited until the last few years, despite the fact that prosody was ...
Siebenhaar, Beat
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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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On the accentuation of Basque place names in Álava

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2018
This paper analyzes the stress patterns of town and village names of the province of Araba (Basque Country, Spain). There are many names that are accentuated closer to the beginning of the word than to the end of the word (Gardélegi, Etxábarri, Arrízala,
Garazi de Olano Martinitz-Xil, Gorka Elordieta   +1 more
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