10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVOICING»
Discover the use of
devoicing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
devoicing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Final
Devoicing in the Phonology of German
Introduction and Overview This book deals with the phonological event of final
devoicing in a theoretical fi'amework based on principles and parameters rather
than rules. It refers to data coming almost exclusively fiom German (native and ...
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English Phonology: An Introduction
8.3.2 Allophony of voiced obstruents: devoicing Unlike their voiceless
counterparts, voiced stops are subject to neither aspiration nor glottalisation;
instead, they display allophony of a different kind: in certain contexts, they are
partially or even ...
3
Language Transfer: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language ...
One rule that has proved to be especially interesting involves consonant
devoicing; in some languages certain consonants at the ends of words become
voiceless. In German, for instance, the final consonant of Rad ("wheel") is
pronounced the ...
Introduction Vowel devoicing is a common phonological process in many
languages and typically involves high vowels and schwa. High vowels and
schwa are inherently short (Bell 1978; Dauer 1980) and the process usually
occurs when the ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Kensuke Nanjo, Tetsuo Nishihara, 2005
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Strength Relations in Phonology
Introduction There is a long-standing tradition in phonology of regarding the
widespread process of final obstruent devoicing as a form of fortition, hardening (
Verhärtung) or strengthening. The view has deep roots in the philological
tradition ...
Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley, 2009
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Introduction This paper investigates the degree to which a linguistic feature (
vowel devoicing) plays a role in native speaker dialect identification. Vowel
devoicing is a common topic in Japanese phonology. In general the high vowels l
\l and /u/ ...
Dennis Richard Preston, Daniel Long, 2002
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Phonology: Analysis and Theory
For our final example of segmental phonological regularities involving both
vowels and consonants, we will consider the well-known case of what is
traditionally called final devoicing in German. The German term
Auslautverhartung means ...
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The Phonological Spectrum: Segmental structure
Final. Devoicing. and. the. stratification. of. the. lexicon. in. German*. Caroline
Fery University of Potsdam o. Introduction This paper examines German Final
Devoicing in Optimality Theory (OT) and shows that a full account of the data
requires ...
Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer, Vincent van Heuven, Harry van der Hulst, 2003
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A Reader in Sociophonetics
Chapter. 6. An. Emerging. Gender. Difference. in. Japanese. Vowel. Devoicing.
Terumi Imai, Wittenberg University 1. Introduction The Japanese high vowels /i/
and /u/ (the latter phonetically [؉]) tend to be devoiced when they occur between
...
Dennis Richard Preston, Nancy A. Niedzielski, 2010
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Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
We see for example that in Tournai, all the occurrences of devoicing before a
vowel are due to a single speaker (and always in the same word, week-end).
This speaker is also one of the three who are the only ones in Tournai who
present ...
Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong, Françoise Gadet, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVOICING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
devoicing is used in the context of the following news items.
Monthly etymology gleanings for April 2015
If the shortening and devoicing had not occurred, leave would have remained “regular” and rhymed with heave—heaved—heaved, whose ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
Uff da: That Minnesota accent is something to be proud of
... might sound more like a “ch” — a feature called “devoicing,” Loss said, adding that it's a distinction she sometimes hears in her own speech. «Southernminn.com, Dec 14»
Video: Outlander's dialect coach teaches you the many accents of …
... as you go up the Highlands it's a little bit lighter and you can hear the Gaelic processes, aspiration and devoicing coming into the speech. «Scotland Now, Dec 14»
That Minnesota accent is something to be proud of
... might sound more like a “ch” — a feature called “devoicing,” Loss said, adding that it's a distinction she sometimes hears in her own speech. «Washington Times, Dec 14»
That Minnesoooota accent is something to be proud of
The second "j" sound in "judge," for example, might sound more like a "ch" -- a feature called "devoicing," Loss said, adding that it's a distinction ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Dec 14»
Why is Modi Choosing State Media over Private Players?
... and Facebook—for relaying his messages and giving limited access to only public broadcaster, Modi is in a way devoicing the Indian media, ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Oct 14»
Can you guess where people are from based on their accents?
It is easier to tell, for example, that devoicing final consonants is one of the most common mistakes among all non-native English speakers. «Quartz, Sep 14»
The Origins of Yiddish, Part Dray
Since, Wexler reasoned, all the Slavic languages of Eastern Europe except Sorbian also have final devoicing, why would German-speaking ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jul 14»
How not to sound Ukrainian when captured by pro-Russia separatists
Ukrainian does not employ what linguists call "consonant devoicing," whereas, in Russian, certain consonants disappear when spoken. But this ... «Washington Post, May 14»
New Law Bans Surgery That Silences Dogs, Cats
"'Devocalize' includes debarking, devoicing, silencing, ventriculocordectomy, vocal cordectomy, bark reduction, and bark softening." Licensed ... «Southern Maryland Online, Apr 14»
