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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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Features of the evolution of the vowels of the first syllable of Finno-Ugric stem in the Mordovian languages

Финно-угорский мир, 2018
The phonetic system is one of the most important aspects of the language. The study of the structure and features of this system allows tracing both the current state and the history of the development of a language.
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of intensive voice treatment (the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [LSVT]) on vowel articulation in dysarthric individuals with idiopathic Parkinson disease: acoustic and perceptual findings.

Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 2007
PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of intensive voice treatment targeting vocal loudness (the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [LSVT]) on vowel articulation in dysarthric individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD).
S. Sapir, Jennifer L. Spielman, L. Ramig, B. Story, C. Fox   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The influence of orthography on phonemic knowledge: An experimental investigation on German and Persian [PDF]

, 2019
This study investigated whether the phonological representation of a word is modulated by its orthographic representation in case of a mismatch between the two representations.
Indefrey, P., Nayernia, L., Van den Vijver, R.   +2 more
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Impairment of Vowel Articulation as a Possible Marker of Disease Progression in Parkinson's Disease

PLoS ONE, 2012
Purpose The aim of the current study was to survey if vowel articulation in speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) shows specific changes in the course of the disease. Method 67 patients with PD (42 male) and 40 healthy speakers (20 male) were tested and
S. Skodda, W. Grönheit, U. Schlegel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Reading in Arabic: New Evidence for the Role of Vowel Signs

, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of vowelization on reading Arabic orthography. Native children speakers of Arabic were asked to read aloud words (vowelized and unvowelized) and pseudowords.
Raphiq Ibrahim
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]

, 2014
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
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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
wiley   +1 more source