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Attention Effects on Letter-Speech Sound Integration
i-Perception, 2011 Previous studies suggested that attention modulates how well we integrate sounds with visual cues. In the present study, we examined attention effects on integration of written and heard syllables in fluent readers.
Maria Mittag +4 more
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Oral Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1983 In Brazilian Portuguese, there are at least two types of unstressed syllables: pretonic and final. Phonologically, this is shown by the fact that the system of 7 phonemic oral vowels in stressed syllables is decreased to 5 in pretonic syllables and to 3 ...
Nobre, Maria Alzira, Ingemann, Frances
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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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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Optimal spectral templates for triggered feedback experiments.
PLoS ONE, 2020 In the field of songbird neuroscience, researchers have used playback of aversive noise bursts to drive changes in song behavior for specific syllables within a bird's song.
Anand S Kulkarni, Todd W Troyer
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Transactions 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
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Attention effects on the processing of task-relevant and task-irrelevant speech sounds and letters
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2013 We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to study effects of selective attention on the processing of attended and unattended spoken syllables and letters.
Maria eMittag +10 more
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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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Psico-USF, 2009 Presente estudo avaliou a capacidade de discriminação fonológica de sílabas em crianças com dislexia do desenvolvimento e bons leitores. Participaram do estudo 10 disléxicos e 10 controles pareados por idade, sexo, série, nível intelectual e atencional ...
Katerina Lukasova +2 more
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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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