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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker +2 more
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Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen
Linguistik Online, 2019 This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure ...
Javier Caro Reina
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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Nature and Functions of Vowel Epenthesis in Yoruba Loanwords
International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, 2023 Vowel epenthesis processes vary in their characteristics, and many aspects of their typology are still under continuous study even in English, wherein a lot of academic work has been done, much less so in Yoruba and other African languages where a large part of academic research on the phenomenon is still evolving.
null Dr. Michael Olugbenga Ajileye +2 more
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 678-697, March/April 2024.Abstract Background Non‐word repetition (NWR) tests are an important way speech and language therapists (SaLTs) assess language development. NWR tests are often scored whilst participants make their responses (i.e., in real time) in clinical and research reports (documented here via a secondary analysis of a published systematic review).
Peter Howell +5 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 The paper investigates nasal epenthesis in vowel-initial preverbal 3rd person accusative pronouns in modern dialectal European Portuguese (EP). The study is underpinned by the data from the verbatim transcription section of CORDIAL-SIN, a dialectal ...
Mikołaj Nkollo
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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Vocali epentetiche in Lunigiana
Géolinguistique, 2013 In this work I tackle the description of the phonological process known as epenthesis in two geographically-related dialects spoken in Carrara (MS) and Pontremoli (MS).
Edoardo Cavirani
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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An optimality analysis of Malay loanwords in Japanese [PDF]
, 2017 This study aimed to examine and explain the phonology of Malay loanwords in Japanese using Optimality Theory. The analysis was based on secondary data extracted from the Senyum magazine published in Malaysia that utilises Japanese language in its writing.
Aznur Aisyah,, Zaharani Ahmad,
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