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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"lenition"”.
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
This is a sociolinguistic investigation that focuses on variation and change in Medini Arabic (Saudi Arabia). Data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews were collected from 58 speakers, and analysed quantitatively within the framework of the quantitative variationist paradigm using Rbrul. The …
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Weakening of Intervocalic /P, T, K/ in Two Spanish Dialects: Toward the Quantification of Lenition Processes
… sequence as a potential metric by which stop lenition may be quantified, and finally, the application of a similar experimental method to the voiced stops /b, d, g/ in order to gain insight into the nature by which phonological contrast is upheld in the Spanish stop series.
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Contrast preservation and constraints on individual phonetic variation
… Catalan having stronger /s/ than Spanish because lenition of Catalan /s/ causes phonetic overlap with a contrasting phoneme, while lenition of Spanish /s/ does not. In the second experiment, the simultaneous lenition of Spanish intervocalic /ptk/ and /bdg/ in three dialects (Cuzco, Peru; Lima, …
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En torno a los orígenes del español. Estudio sobre las secuencias con dos nasales en castellano.
… > [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 [n] in the [mn] sequences, which is in post-consonantal syllable-onset position, is …
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A Sociolinguistic Survey of (t,d) deletion, (t) glottaling, and their intersection in East Anglian English
… the transition glottaling → deletion, in the lenition scale, is in feeding order and is mostly linguistically driven. In this analysis, women exhibit a higher use of glottal variants, whereas males promote deletion – the last stage of the lenition scale.
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The principle of least effort within the hierarchy of linguistic preferences: external evidence from English
… In particular, it identifies the issues of lenition/fortition definition and process typology by presenting the current approaches to process definitions and their typology. Since the chapter concludes that no coherent definition of lenition/fortition exists, it develops alternative …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
… as well as the language-internal process of lenition. Contact-induced patterns, however, do not point to complete (phonetic) assimilation. These findings suggest that heritage speakers have acquired and maintained separate categories for Tagalog sounds, but these categories nonetheless …
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The Madrileño ejke : a study of the perception and production of velarized /s/ in Madrid
… [h] > [ø], and furthermore may not be a case of lenition at all (Henriksen & Harper, 2016). Given the curious /s/ variant present in the Madrid dialect, the current investigation sought to learn more of the social meaning and perception of the velarized /s/, utilizing the matched guise language …
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Linguistic Variation and Change in the Dialect of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia: Feminine Suffixes.
… research (Abboud, 1964 and Ingham, 1982, 2009), lenition of /a:t/ is linguistically conditioned by the following environment. It is promoted pre- pausally and when the following word begins with a consonant, but it is precluded when followed by a vowel across word boundary. The results show that …
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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 …