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    An Exploratory analysis of individual variation in schwa epenthesis in Flemish Dutch and Scottish English

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    This study examines schwa epenthesis as it occurs in Flemish Dutch and Scottish English from a forensic phonetic perspective in terms of the potential it exhibits for speaker comparison purposes, as prior investigations have shown that sociolinguistic variables-such as schwa insertion-may also reveal individual speaker variability. An analysis of spontaneous speech samples for two homogeneous groups of speakers revealed that schwa epenthesis in Flemish showed higher inter-speaker variability than in Scottish English. This suggests that while Flemish schwa insertion may potentially be suitable for use in forensic phonetic environments, this process in Scottish English is not.Aquest estudi investiga la inserció epentètica d'una vocal neutra com ocorre en el neerlandès flamenc i l'anglès escocès des d'una perspectiva fonètica forense quant a la variabilitat individual de parlants i el seu potencial a l'hora de dur a terme comparacions de parlants. Una anàlisi de parla espontània de dos grups homogenis demostra que la inserció epentètica d'una vocal neutra en neerlandès flamenc mostra més variació inter-parlant que en anglès escocès. Així, els resultats suggereixen que aquest procés en neerlandès flamenc podria ser adequat per utilitzar-se en contexts fonètics forenses mentre que en anglès escocès no ho és

    Difficulties with consonants in the spelling and segmentation of CCVCC pseudowords: Differences among Dutch first graders

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    On past participle agreement in transitive clauses in French

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    This paper provides a Minimalist analysis of past participle agreement in French in transitive clauses. Our account posits that the head v of vP in such structures carries an (accusativeassigning) structural case feature which may apply (with or without concomitant agreement) to case-mark a clause-mate object, the subject of a defective complement clause, or an intermediate copy of a preposed subject in spec-CP. In structures where a goal is extracted from vP (e.g. via wh-movement) v also carries an edge feature, and may also carry a specificity feature and a set of (number and gender) agreement features. We show how these assumptions account for agreement of a participle with a preposed specific clausemate object or defective-clause subject, and for the absence of agreement with an embedded object, with the complement of an impersonal verb, and with the subject of an embedded (finite or nonfinite) CP complement. We also argue that the absence of agreement marking (in expected contexts) on the participles faitmade and laissélet in infinitive structures is essentially viral in nature. Finally, we claim that obligatory participle agreement with reflexive and reciprocal objects arises because the derivation of reflexives involves A-movement and concomitant agreement

    Development and perceptual evaluation of a timing module for German diphone speech

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    Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

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    In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the  perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements

    Development and perceptual evaluation of a timing module for German diphone speech

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    Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

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    In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the  perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements

    Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt: How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

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    In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the  perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements

    The disappearance of /r/ in Early Modern English and what it meant for its neighbours

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    Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die historisch-diachrone Analyse der Entwicklung des /r/-Lauts seit dem Spätmittel- bzw. Frühneuenglischen. In bestimmten Varietäten des Englischen wie zum Beispiel dem RP (Received Pronunciation), zeigt sich, dass sie heute zu den „non-rhotic accents“ gehören. So wird der /r/-Laut gegenwärtig lediglich vor Vokalen ausgesprochen (vgl. red [red], very [̕veri], aber card [ca:d], car [ca:]). Auf Grund der orthographischen Präsenz von vor Konsonanten oder Pausen kann jedoch geschlossen werden, dass /r/ in der Vergangenheit auch in diesen Positionen phonetisch präsent war. Die diachrone Beschreibung gibt einen Überblick über den graduellen Verlauf des /r/-Schwundes, der unter anderem durch orthoepische Evidenzquellen belegt wird. Weiters werden die beiden Phänomene der /r/-Epenthese („linking /r/“ und „intrusive /r/“) hinsichtlich ihrer Entstehung und Verwendung erläutert. Eine zentrale Frage der Arbeit betrifft die Motivation konsonantischer Lenierungen mit spezieller Bezugnahme auf den /r/-Laut in der Silbencoda. Dieser Frage wird Mittels der Theorie der natürlichen Phonologie nachgegangen. Ein weiterer Kernpunkt der Arbeit betrifft die Frage inwieweit das /r/ in der Coda vorangehende Vokale beeinflusst hat. Um dies zu Untersuchen wurde ein Set an Daten und linguistischen Parameter analysiert um in Folge Übereinstimmungen und Gesetzmäßigkeiten hinsichtlich der vokalischen Entwicklung erkennen zu können
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