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Syllable Structure in Hawrami (Takht Dialect) [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 The syllable is structured in every language according to the specific rules of that language. The purpose of this article is to study and describe the consonants and vowels, the syllable structure and consonantal clusters in the Hawrami language (the ...
Aliye Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya +1 more
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program.Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 What Is Vowel Harmony, How Does ...
Nevins, Andrew., Keyser, Samuel Jay.
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article deals with some of the phonetic features of medieval Mongolian language in the context of language contacts and linguageographical analysis. The author focuses on the issues related to the development problems of historical phonetics of vowel
Nikolay Badgaev
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Syllable Segmentation of Farsi Continuous Speech using Wavelet Coefficients Thresholding and Fuzzy Smoothing of Energy Contour [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent Procedures in Electrical Technology, 2013 Syllable, as a sub-word unit, nowadays plays an active role in the field of speech processing and recognition research according to its robust relation to human speech production and cognition. Automatic syllable boundaries detection is an important step
Ghazaal Sheikhi, Seyed Hamid Mahmoodian
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Some speculations on the vowel system of classical Arabic [PDF]
, 1996 In this paper I consider the vowel combinations of Classical Arabic. I discuss the possibiIity that vowel combinations which are not considered to have been standardly permitted in Classical Arabic might have occurred in certain ancient dialects.
Dickins, J
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Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich +2 more
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