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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2022 This article offers a systematic and comprehensive account of vowel changes that take place in the inadmissible phonological sequence /VV/ within a word in Zulu.
Lionel Posthumus
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Analysis Of Vowel Deletion In Continuous Speech
, 2013 Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Marrakech, Morocco ...
Rajan Golda Brunet, Hema A. Murthy
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Regional variation in high vowel deletion in New Brunswick French: Preliminary observations
Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada, 2023 This paper presents findings of a descriptive study that suggest that the deletion of high vowels, a process that is generally associated with Laurentian French, may have begun to spread across francophone regions of New Brunswick.
Wladyslaw Cichocki
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Mid Vowel Alternations in Verbal Stems in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003 This paper proposes an alternative analysis for mid vowel alternations in verbal stems in BP, treating them as vowel coalescence, where two input vowels unite into a single output vowel that shares features of its ancestor, in the framework of Optimality
Seung-Hwa Lee
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Phonological adaptation of Arabic names in Atebubu (Bono East Region, Ghana)
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2023 This paper discusses the phonological processes embedded in some nativised Arabic personal names in Atebubu, in the Bono East Region of Ghana. The study shows that the main phonological processes entrenched in the nativisation process include segment ...
Abdulai Akuamah, John Odoom
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Modulation of the following segment effect on English coronal stop deletion by syntactic boundaries
Glossa, 2018 Variable deletion of word-final coronal stops in English is strongly conditioned by whether the following segment is a consonant or a vowel. This paper uses corpus data to show that this following segment effect is weaker across strong syntactic ...
Meredith Tamminga
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick +2 more
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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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