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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster [PDF]
, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Singing synthesis with an evolved physical model [PDF]
, 2006 A two-dimensional physical model of the human vocal tract is described. Such a system promises increased realism and control in the synthesis. of both speech and singing.
Cooper, Crispin +3 more
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Finding Minimum‐Cost Explanations for Predictions Made by Tree Ensembles
Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ability to reliably explain why a machine learning model arrives at a particular prediction is crucial when used as decision support by human operators of critical systems. The provided explanations must be provably correct, and preferably without redundant information, called minimal explanations.
John Törnblom +2 more
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Balsių sistema Aleksandro Žirgulio darbe „Surviliškio tarmė“ (1939)
Baltistica, 2012 1939 m. Vytauto Didžiojo universitete Aleksandras Žirgulys apgynė diplominį darbą „Surviliškio tarmė. Fonetinis aprašas“. Garsinės sandaros tyrimą kalbininkas atliko profesionaliai: balsių ir priebalsių kokybę nustatė taikydamas palatografinį metodą ...
Rūta Kazlauskaitė
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Phonological Development in the Early Speech of an Indonesian-German Bilingual Child [PDF]
, 2016 Current research in bilingual children’s language development with one language dominant has shown that one linguistic system can affect the other. This is called Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI).
Bosch +51 more
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Études romanes de Brno, 2013 This study has two objectives: firstly, to recapitulate the evolution of the Portuguese vowel system and to show the state of this system in various phases of its history (vulgar Latin, old Portuguese, classical Portuguese and modern Portuguese ...
Jan Hricsina
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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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