Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition in the Spanish of Gran Canaria

K Broś, M Żygis, A Sikorski, J Wołłejko - Phonology, 2021 - cambridge.org
This study explores ongoing lenition of postvocalic/ptkbdg/in the Spanish of Gran Canaria.
Duration, intensity and harmonics-to-noise ratio of 16,454 sounds produced by 44 native …

Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages

M Żygis, S Fuchs, LL Koenig - Laboratory Phonology, 2012 - degruyter.com
This paper shows that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency for
voiced sibilant affricates to be infrequent or missing altogether. Phonological processes …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-regional patterns of obstruent voicing and gemination: The case of Roman and Veneto Italian

A Dian, J Hajek, J Fletcher - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
Italian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also
presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties. Northern varieties of the …

[HTML][HTML] Voicing and frication at the phonetics-phonology interface: An acoustic study of Greek, Serbian, Russian, and English

C Bjorndahl - Journal of Phonetics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an acoustic investigation of/f, v, s, z/in Greek, Serbian,
Russian, and English. The study is motivated by phonological considerations, specifically …

On the nature of apical vowel in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Acoustic and articulatory data

B Shao, R Ridouane - Journal of the International Phonetic …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Chinese languages have a set of segments known as apical vowels, which have been
analysed in previous studies as either genuine vowels, fricative vowels, fricative consonants …

[KNJIGA][B] Phonotactics of Czech

A Bičan - 2013 - is.muni.cz
This work analyzes the distribution and combinations of phonemes of Modern Standard
Czech, in short, the phonotactics of Czech. An enterprise of this kind usually requires setting …

An overview of the phonology of obstruents

TA Hall, M Żygis - Turbulent sounds: An interdisciplinary guide, 2010 - degruyter.com
Sounds in the languages of the world involving turbulent noise are referred to in generative
phonology as 'obstruents', a natural class subsuming stops, affricates and fricatives. Sounds …

Vend Romani: Grammatical description and sociolinguistic situation of the so-called Vend dialects of Romani

Z Bodnárová - 2015 - dspace.cuni.cz
The thesis provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Vend Romani, an
under-described dialect of Romani spoken in the Transdanubian region of Hungary, and …

[PDF][PDF] Az ómagyar bilabiális β kérdéséhez

K Tamás - A Debreceni Egyetem Magyar Nyelvtudományi …, 2019 - vmek.uz.ua
A hangtörténet hosszú időn keresztül a magyar nyelvtörténeti kutatások „zászlóshajója” volt,
a történeti-összehasonlító nyelvészet az etimológiai vizsgálatok mellett rendre ezen a téren …

Why do sonorants not voice in Hungarian? And why do they voice in Slovak?

Z Bárkányi, ZG Kiss - Approaches to Hungarian, 2015 - degruyter.com
This paper investigates the acoustic aspects of voicing assimilation in Hungarian and
Slovak, paying special attention to the position before the sonorant consonants/m/and/l …