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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"rhotics"”.
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
… syllable-final nasals (N) and postvocalic rhotics (R). Thimphu is Bhutan’s central location for education, jobs, commerce and social network ties. Both (N) and (R) show variable deletion, as correlated with internal (phonetic environment, tone, grammatical category, phrase position) and …
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“Alma” o “arma”, evidencia de la neutralización /l/ /r/ en la variedad dialectal andaluza de Sevilla
… lateral maintenance, substitution of laterals by rhotics, production of in between sounds and deletion in 40 Andalusian speakers of Spanish. In doing so, it rigorously examines the effect of a number of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The linguistic factors comprised of number of …
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A Historical Dialectological Approach to Convergence: Isoglosses of Balkan Convergence Area Features in Albanian Dialects
… 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 based on information culled from …
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Licensing stop place before laterals : a study of acoustic cues relevant to the perception of stop-lateral sequences
… of the two cues is available (e.g. before vowels/rhotics) or (2) when other contextual cues are available to license the place contrast. As the threshold of distinctiveness for place contrasts that rules out TL-KL contrasts in a language is predicted to rule out any place contrast that is less …
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An analysis of /r/ variation in Singapore English
In modern urban Singapore, the variety of English spoken evolves through a continual negotiation of adhering to traditionally standard models and creating local norms in the environment of myriad social and substratum language influences. Singapore English (SgE) speakers constantly navigate a …