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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Sound Change"”.
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Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change
… most discussed questions in the literature on sound change is whether functional factors play a role in shaping the lexicon over time, for instance by blocking the occurrence of a sound change (Gilliéron 1918), or whether sound change is entirely mechanical and phonetically determined (Labov …
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The invisible hand and sound change
Includes bibliography.
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Automatic Methods for Sound Change Discovery
… automatic methods to discover patterns of sound change in different settings of input and output conditions. More specifically, we focus on three challenging tasks: (1) automatic decipherment, (2) automatic decipherment in unsegmented scripts, and (3) automatic sound law induction. We show …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language revitali- sation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are …
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Sound Change in Farmer City: A Sociolinguistic Study Based on Acoustic Data
This dissertation reports the findings of a survey of the dialect of Farmer City, Illinois, involving spectrographic analysis of the recorded speech of a sample of 40 individuals from two opposing teenage peer groups and two older generations. A group of 7 speakers from three generations of a
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Articulatory timing and sound change: a sociophonetic study of /st/ clusters in Seville Spanish
… morphological dimensions to better understand sound change and the role of articulatory timing in sibilant evolution. Data were collected from eighteen native Sevillian speakers through semi-structured interviews and a Controlled Reading Task (CRT). The interviews provided spontaneous speech …
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A New Perspective on Vowel Variation Across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
… and analysis of vowel variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community located in the Midwestern United States. Specifically, this work documents and analyzes vowel variation among 62 native-English speaking European American informants, who are …
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Studies in second fronting
… studies Second Fronting, an Old English sound change which is associated with Mercian, one of the Old English dialects. Due to the lack of preserved material of this dialect, it is very difficult to analyse Second Fronting in detail. Hence it is a change that although it is included in …
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En torno a los orígenes del español. Estudio sobre las secuencias con dos nasales en castellano.
… However, from a phonetic perspective both the sound change [mn] > [mɾ] and [mɾ] > [mbɾ] are questionable. First, since consonant lenition is cross-linguistically more prone to happen in weak positions (i. e., coda and intervocalic) than in strong positions (i. e., onset), the rhotacism of the …
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When Synchrony Meets Diachrony: (Alveolo)Palatal Sound Patterns in Spanish and other Romance Languages
… lateral, obstruent, and approximant sounds in Spanish, with further evidence from other Romance languages, such as Portuguese, French, Italian, Rumanian, Galician, and Catalan, among others. These sounds are interconnected in their manifestations across Spanish dialects, where …
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Diphthongization of Non-High Vowel Sequences in Latin American Spanish
… of non-high hiatus sequences in Spanish as a sound change motivated by internal linguistic forces but mediated in its diffusion by social factors.
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Spatial sound and sound localization on a horizontal surface for use with interactive surface (tabletop) computers
… computers?" "How does our perception of spatial sound change with these different loudspeaker configurations?" and "What panning methods should be used to maximally use the spatial localization abilities of the user(s)?" Using a custom-built tabletop computer setup, the work presented in this …
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An acoustic analysis of labialization of coronal nasal consonants in American English
… lexicon. This study focuses on one particular sound change common in conversational speech, in which word-final coronal nasal consonants undergo place assimilation toward following word-initial labial consonants. Formant frequency measurements were taken from words ending with coronal nasal …
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A Historical Dialectological Approach to Convergence: Isoglosses of Balkan Convergence Area Features in Albanian Dialects
… phonemic long vowels, phonemic nasal vowels, and sound change involving nasals and rhotics. It also studies a feature that varies across Albanian dialects, that of word-final schwa. Using the methodology of dialect geography, this dissertation presents isoglosses of these six features in Albanian …
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Interactive Development Of F0 As An Acoustic Cue For Korean Stop Contrast
… Voice Onset Time (VOT), but with a tonogenetic sound change in progress, the role of fundamental frequency (F0) has been amplified for distinguishing between Korean stop contrasts with the loss of VOT differentiation in young adults’ production. The present study explores how F0 is perceptually …
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Studies in the dialect materials of medieval Herefordshire
… are carried out, covering topics such as the changes affecting the systems of gender, case and number since the Old English period, and the developments of the Early Middle English front rounded vowels, and of Germanic a. A language contact-based explanation of the Old English sound-change …
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De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses
… By using the neogrammarian observation that sound-change is regular and exceptionless, it is possible to ascertain whether or not the Sabine glosses are likely to be from the same language. This thesis finds that the sound-changes undergone by the Sabine glosses show no broad agreement. The …
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The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production
… merger to play a powerful role in mitigating sound change.
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Managing science teachers’ adoption of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student-Centred Curriculum: Revealing schoolbased leaders’ practices and achievements
Many countries have made considerable changes to their education systems in response to the forces of globalisation. Tanzania is no exception. The most recent educational change attempt in Tanzania relates to the introduction of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student- Centred Curriculum. Sound …
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Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
… regionally enregistered variant and a supralocal sound change variant, and word-initial /t/, which has no known social associations or correlations within Sheffield. This allows me to examine how the degree of enregisterment attributed to a linguistic feature affects how it can be used for making …
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