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Perception of social variables related to allophones of taps and trills

open access: yesCadernos de Linguística, 2021
This work presents preliminary research into determining value judgments of socioeconomic class and educational level of speakers based on the allophones of the alveolar tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/ in found in Costa Rican Spanish speech.
Mariela A. Porras-Chaverri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Close-range vocal interaction in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Vocal communication in animals often involves taking turns vocalizing. In humans, turn-taking is a fundamental rule in conversation. Among non-human primates, the common marmoset is known to engage in antiphonal calling using phee calls and trill calls ...
Rogier Landman   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Rhotic Production by Bilingual Spanish Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
Due to its articulatory precision, the Spanish rhotic system is generally acquired in late childhood by monolingually-raised (L1) Spanish speakers. Heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners, unlike L1 speakers, risk an incomplete acquisition of
Laura D. Cummings Ruiz, Silvina Montrul
doaj   +1 more source

Converging Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics and Language Change in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
This study examines the acoustic realization of phonemic taps and trills across generations of Creole-Spanish bilinguals in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia.
Falcon Restrepo Ramos
doaj   +1 more source

Alofonia rótica em coda silábica: produções em variedades da língua espanhola

open access: yesPhonica, 2022
Os róticos constituem uma classe de sons que apresenta extensa alofonia em coda silábica. A língua espanhola apresenta dois fonemas róticos tap /ɾ/ e trill /r/ como alófonos em coda silábica e podem ocorrer taps, trills, fricativos, e aproximantes ...
Maria da Piedade Soares Costola   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vowel prothesis before /r/ revisited: acoustics and typology

open access: yesGlossa, 2021
Vowel prothesis is a phonological process by which a vowel is inserted at the beginning of a word. Vowel prothesis before a rhotic is attested in a number of languages of the world and has been discussed by Hall (2011), where the instantiation of this ...
David Bolter
doaj   +2 more sources

The calling songs of some katydids (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) from the tropical forests of Southeast Asia [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Orthoptera Research, 2023
Katydids produce sound for signaling and communication by stridulation of the tegmina. Unlike crickets, most katydids are known to sing at ultrasonic frequencies.
Ming Kai Tan   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Acoustic and vibrational signaling in true katydid Nesoecia nigrispina: three means of sound production in one species [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2022
The males of Mexican katydids Nesoecia nigrispina (Stal, 1873) produce calling songs and protest sounds using the typical stridulatory apparatus, situated, as in most of the other Ensifera, at the bases of the tegmina.
Olga S. Korsunovskaya   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Neutralization of the Tap/Trill Contrast in the Bilingual Creole-Spanish Community of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia

open access: yesIkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2022
This study examines the segmental duration of non-vibrant rhotics in a language contact scenario in the Western Caribbean, where an English-based Creole co-exists with Spanish: The Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia.
Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
doaj   +1 more source

Testosterone affects song modulation during simulated territorial intrusions in male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Although it has been suggested that testosterone plays an important role in resource allocation for competitive behavior, details of the interplay between testosterone, territorial aggression and signal plasticity are largely unknown.
Apfelbeck, Beate   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

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