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Speech Rate Variation in Synchronous Speech
Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 2012 When two speakers read a text together, the produced speech has been shown to reduce a high degree of variability (e.g., pause duration and placement, and speech rate). This paper provides a quantitative analysis of speech rate variation exhibited in synchronous speech by examining the global and local patterns in two dialects of Mandarin Chinese ...
Miran Kim, Hosung Nam
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Diachronic variation and the lexical field. Theoretical and practical implications [PDF]
Diacronia, 2015 This paper tackles the importance of diachronic variation within the framework of the research dedicated to the lexical field, as well as the implications at the level of practical applications. Two major research perspectives can be distinguished in the
Dinu Moscal
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Languages, 2023 This study takes the Yong-deng dialect as a case study to investigate the phenomenon of tonal merging observed in Northwest Chinese dialects. It begins by examining the various monosyllabic tone patterns of the Yong-deng dialect, then supplements this ...
Li Yi
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Socio-functionalist incursions into the tense-aspect-mood domain
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013 This article examines aspects of the socio-functionalist paradigm, an approach that fuses, within the study of variation and change, theoretical and methodological hypotheses of Variationist Sociolinguistics and of Functionalism.
Fábio Fernandes Torres +2 more
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Understanding Grammars through Diachronic Change
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 In this paper, I will vindicate the importance of syntactic change for the study of synchronic stages of natural languages, according to the following outline.
Nerea Madariaga
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Spelling Variation in Inner-Circle Englishes
Atlantis, 2023 English is the language with the largest number of speakers in the world, when both native and non-native speakers are included. With an estimated 1,268 million users around the globe, linguistic variation is bound to occur.
Marta Pacheco-Franco
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Intraspecific Seasonal Variation of Flowering Synchronization in a Heterodichogamous Tree [PDF]
Plants, 2020 Heterodichogamous reproduction in plants involves two flowering morphs, reciprocal in their timing of male and female sexual functions. The degree of synchrony in floral sex phase, within and between individuals of each morph, determines the flowers’ potential fertilization partners.
Noemi Tel-Zur, Tamar Keasar
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Synchronic Variation in The Old English Perfect [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2013 AbstractIn Old English, the present/past dichotomy of the Germanic verbal system was supplemented by the development of periphrastic forms such as the perfect and pluperfect. However, the inflected past tense continued to be used beside these newer forms to express similar temporal content.
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Gradual effects of voicing in the Romance languages
Revista de Filología Románica, 2016 The aim of this paper is to present the synchronic effects of voicing assimilation in Romance languages and analyze the principles - the regularities - that underlie the observed variation.
Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret
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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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