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To the question of the early period Old Russian phonological system description

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2020
The article attempts to present the early period Old Russian phonological system. The main attention is paid to the characteristics of the vocalism subsystem in the 6th – 9th centuries.
Kurulyenok Andrey Aleksandrovich
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Hausa vowels and dipthongs

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1985
Acoustic properties of Hausa vowels and diphthongs from several speakers are investigated. The results show that Hausa is best described as having a five vowel system, where the five basic vowels have the qualities of the long vowels.
Mona Lindau-Webb
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Attachment, Perceived Partner Phubbing, and Retaliation: A Daily Diary Study

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective We conducted a diary study to investigate the role of adult attachment on responses to daily perceived partner phubbing in a sample of couple members (N = 196). Method We focused on personal and relational well‐being as well as reactions to phubbing, retaliation reports, and motives as outcomes.
Katherine B. Carnelley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley   +1 more source

Prominence and centralization: a two-way contrast between lexical and epenthetic non-labial high vowels in Algherese Catalan

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental, 2015
Algherese Catalan has the peculiarity of presenting an inserted [i] vowel across words in order to avoid certain consonant codas. In this study, we compare five acoustic features of this epenthetic segment (i.e., duration, intensity, and the three first
Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of word-final vowel duration for non-native portuguese speaker identification by means of Support Vector Machines

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2014
This article studies the acoustic characteristics of some oral vowels in tonic syllables of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and which acoustic features are important for classifying native versus non-native speakers of BP.
Suzanne Franks, Rommel Barbosa
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Discrimination of Degrees of Foreign Accent across Different Speakers

open access: yesLanguages
Second-language learners often encounter communication challenges due to a foreign accent (FA) in their speech, influenced by their native language (L1).
Rubén Pérez-Ramón
doaj   +1 more source

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