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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Vowel harmony in Mongolic languages
The main section of this chapter describes vowel harmony (VH) in Khalkha Mongolian, which has both tongue-root harmony and rounding harmony. The vowels are divided into two classes, retracted tongue root (RTR), a, ?, ?, and advanced tongue root (ATR), e,
Lund University., Svantesson, Jan Olof,
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Underspecification and low vowel harmony in Okpe
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 This paper examines the effect of [ATR] vowel harmony on low vowels in Okpe, an Edoid language of Nigeria. The relevant facts can be summarized as follows: Low vowel stems condition [-ATR] forms on affixes.
Douglas Pulleyblank
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 223-252, May 2026.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 This paper is the first to describe aspects of the vocalic phonology of Mbat, a Jarawan Bantu language. Mbat exhibits a series of vowel-consonant interactions in its verbs that sometimes yield height harmony between a stem and suffixal vowel.
Christopher R. Green
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Multidimensional Measurements of Dysarthria in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Background Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a heterogeneous neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and myotonia. Dysarthria is a known symptom of DM1, but literature is lacking about the patient's own perception in relationship to dysarthria characteristics and severity.
Sanne van Hellemond +6 more
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Phonological characterization of the vocalic segments in Prata - MG
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2015 This article discusses the phonological characterization of vocalic segments through distinctive features, following a specification of features according to a more traditional approach.
Marlúcia Maria Alves
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Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 807-818, April 2026.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel +5 more
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COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF KAZAKH VOWEL–CONSONANT HARMONY
Journal of Problems in Computer Science and Information TechnologiesThis study presents a computational model of morphological generation based on the agglutinative nature of the Kazakh language and vowel–consonant harmony.
Zhansaya Segizbayeva, Marek Miłosz
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