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A sociolinguistic study of a southern Iraqi dialect: fortition of the variants [j] and [ʧ].
… [j] and [ʧ] are unstable and it has undergone fortition in the dialect. That is, there is a typical pattern of dialect change toward the production of [k] and [ʤ] led by younger, male, higher contact speakers.
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A Sociolinguistic study of the Dawāsir dialect in Dammam, Eastern Arabia: fortition of /j/ and unrounding of /a:/
The present research investigates two sociolinguistic variables in the dialect of the Dawāsir who reside in Dammam in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Those Dawāsir immigrated from their homeland Wādi ad-Dawāsir in Najd to Bahrain and later returned to KSA, specifically Dammam. Dammam is a coastal city …
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The production and perception of domain-initial strengthening in Seoul, Busan, and Ulsan Korean
Korean exhibits one of the most consistent examples of the cross-linguistic phenomenon of domain-initial strengthening (hereafter DIS; T. Cho & Keating, 2001; Keating, Cho, Fougeron, & Hsu, 2004). DIS is defined as temporal and/or spatial enhancement of segmental articulation in the initial …
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Social and Linguistic Factors Conditioning the Glottal Stop in Nicaraguan Spanish
<p>This dissertation investigates the word-final, intervocalic glottal stop [ʔ] in Nicaraguan Spanish, a highly understudied variant in an equally understudied dialect of Spanish. The glottal stop occurs most frequently in western Nicaragua as an allophone of word-final, intervocalic /s/ (the …