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Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis
Languages, 2019 The current study examines the realization of adjacent vowels across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, focusing specifically on the rate of glottal stop epenthesis in this context (e.g., hombre africano
Sherez Mohamed +2 more
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Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 55-65, February 2026.ABSTRACT Increased awareness of Tibetan cultural preservation, along with technological advancements, has led to significant efforts in academic research on Tibetan. However, the structural complexity of the Tibetan language and limited labeled handwriting data impede advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other applications.
Dorje Tashi +9 more
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Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Chru, a Chamic language of south-central Vietnam, has been described as combining contrastive obstruent voicing with incipient registral properties (Fuller, 1977). A production study reveals that obstruent voicing has already become optional and that the
Đinh Lư Giang +3 more
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Vowel Height Assimilation in Bantu Languages
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1991 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp.
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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 72-89, February 2026.Abstract This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th‐century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hunger, thirst and calls of nature influenced the timing and location of events and, along with the physical aspects of accessibility, visibility and ...
Dave Steele
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Development of tones from vowel height?
Journal of Phonetics, 1977 Abstract: The development of contrastive tones on vowels due to the loss of a voicing distinction on obstruents in prevocalic position is widely attested and rather well understood. On the other hand intrinsic fundamental frequency variations caused by vowel height rarely, if at all, give rise to the development of phonological tones.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 29-42, February 2026.ABSTRACT Sociolinguists emphasize the context‐dependence of social meanings activated by linguistic variation. I examine this dynamic using the Goffmanian concept of frames, focusing on the intersection of gender and sexuality. More specifically, I explore pitch variation as an index of femininity in the domestic abuse victimization frame.
Matthew Hunt
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Artificial Compound Eye for Clear Vision in Harsh Environment
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 4, 12 January 2026.Artificial compound eye (CE) with exceptional imaging and motion tracking capturing the movement of a spider and swinging thread with a wide field of view. Surface modifications ensure clear vision of alphabetic letters in rain and fog. Images captured in fog with CE remains visible 3 times longer than simple eyes (SE).
Kehinde Kassim +6 more
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper contends that the two competing "rules" that the literature on Portuguese morphophonology has claimed to apply to the verb paradigm, namely, vowel height harmony and vowel lowering, are, in fact, phonotactic restrictions that apply, in a ...
Eleonora Cavalcante Albano
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Distinctive vowel heights in Limburgish and Bavarian
Taal en Tongval, 2020 Abstract Standard works on linguistics give Amstetten Bavarian (Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996) and Weert Limburgish (Ladefoged 2007) as examples of languages with four or five distinctive vowel heights. Other Limburgish and East Central Bavarian dialects are also described with four or five heights.
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