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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Analysis of the Word-Initial Segment with Reference to Lemmatising Zulu Nasal Nouns
<p>The process of lemmatising nasal nouns in the Zulu lexicon is problematic. The traditional method is to lemmatise a Zulu lexical noun by etymological noun-stem. This practice creates difficulties in harmonising lexical nouns with their syntactic
M.H. Mpungose
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Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours [PDF]
In this paper we describe a new method to diminish microprosodic components of fundamental frequency contours by applying weight functions linked to microprosodically classified phone combinations.
Reichel, Uwe D., Winkelmann, Raphael
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Social voice judgement is dyadic: Acoustic typicality and interpersonal similarity interact
Abstract The formation of social first impressions from voices is a central component of everyday social interactions. While past research has primarily investigated the effect of bottom‐up voice acoustic on social voice judgements, here we widen the perspective and investigate how bottom‐up acoustic and top‐down interpersonal similarity interactively ...
Selma Bruggisser +2 more
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ABSTRACT This comparative study explores young people's experiences of communication and decision‐making during parental divorce in two distinct cultural contexts: Türkiye and England. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 young people aged 11–16, the research addresses a gap in the Turkish literature by foregrounding children's perspectives, which
Gözde Doğanyılmaz‐Burger +1 more
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Vowel length in Standard Italian and Northern Italian dialects [PDF]
textIn this report, the phenomenon of vowel lengthening in Standard Italian and two Northern Italian dialects, Friulian and Milanese, is discussed. For each language, the facts of vowel lengthening are presented and analyzed in the framework of several ...
Youngblood, Jessica Lyn
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Vowel alternations in arabic phonology
This paper aims at giving a descriptive account of vowel alternations of verbs in a Bedouin Arabic dialect. The paper shows that we can account for the vowel alternations by three phonological processes.
Irshied, Omar M.
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ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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Voiceless Bangla vowel recognition using sEMG signal
Some people cannot produce sound although their facial muscles work properly due to having problem in their vocal cords. Therefore, recognition of alphabets as well as sentences uttered by these voiceless people is a complex task.
Rashid, M.A. +3 more
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