Le concept de « marqueur sub-lexical » : bilan d’un ballon d’essai by Dennis Philps

“…In a 1997 paper, I posited the existence, in the English lexicon, of a word-initial consonant segment which I call a ‘sub-lexical marker’, defined as a submorphemic unit displaying both phonological and notional invariance within the class of words of which it is a formative. …”
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Urhobo-English Loanwords Coda Adaptation: A Constraint-Based Account by Philip Oghenesuowho Ekiugbo, Cecilia Amaoge Eme

“…Syllabification conditions in languages that forbid filled coda will require that all the consonant sounds in a phonological word that are to be found in the phonetic string are parsed as onsets. …”
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Linguistic Stylistics of Jalal Al Ahmadâs Short Stories by حسین رضویان

“…Phonetic, lexical and syntactic evidences in his short stories confirm these findings. Phonological processes such as phoneme and syllable deletion, using words and slangs, simple nouns and adjectives, and frequent usage of active and compound sentences are among the evidences in this study which have been discovered.…”
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Schibboleth, la langue comme arme de détection massive : 1937, le massacre des Haïtiens by Arnaud Richard, Renauld Govain

“…We shall examine the socio-historical contextualization of these events and then put into perspective the phonological and pragmatic dimensions of such a term with deadly ends.…”
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The atlas of the Balkan linguistic area program by Adamou Evangelia, Sobolev Andrey N.

“…Specifically, ABLA consists of 93 phonological, morpho-syntactic, semantic, and lexical features. …”
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« You little zit! » ou quand une sitcom américaine est génératrice d’insultes by Vincent Hugou

“…We assume that there are syntactic, semantic, morphological and phonological  « hints » in the newly-formed insult which better enable the retrieval of the construction on which the new form is modelled, and which thereby facilitate comprehension. …”
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Executive Function Improvement in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Following Shunt Surgery by Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Andrés Cervio, Jorge Salvat, Anselmo Rodríguez Loffredo, Luciana Vita, María Roca, Teresa Torralva, Facundo Manes

“…Significant differences were found between basal and follow-up performances on the Boston Naming Test, the backwards digits span, Part B of the Trail Making Test, and the number of words produced on the phonological fluency task. In conclusion, our study reveals that patients with NPH who respond positively to continuous slow lumbar cerebral spinal fluid drainage and receive a ventriculoperitoneal shunt implant, improve their performance on tasks of executive function. …”
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Consonant alternations in the language of Safet Sijarić's novel Rod i Dom by Mujević Dženisa

“…What differentiates this speech from the neighboring ones are precisely the phonetic and phonological specificities, then the specificities of the morphological system in the context of word formation, in the context of declension, conjugation, and morphological syncretism in the case paradigm system. …”
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Progressive Dyslexia: Evidence from Hungarian and English by Judit Druks, Jennifer Aydelott, Marios Genethliou, Helen Jacobs, Brendan Weekes

“…Results showed significant decline in oral reading in both languages, and an effect of language status in favour of oral reading in L1. Phonological complexity was a significant predictor of oral reading decline in both languages. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“… This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). …”
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R post-vocalique et histoire de l’anglais by Jacques Durand

“…While the loss of post-vocalic r’s does require an explanation in phonetic and phonological terms, I mainly concentrate on broader sociolinguistic and sociohistorical issue: on the one hand, the early emergence in Britain of London and the surrounding counties as a centre from which changes radiate across the whole of Britain; on the other hand, the complex evolution of English in the United States with the emergence of new social and geographical boundaries. …”
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Al-Takrar Fii Daw'i Al-Dirasat Al-Uslubiyah Al-Haditsah by Aiyub Berdan

“…Repetition is closely related to stylistic studies because style depends on the frequency of repeated linguistic elements (phonological, grammatical, and lexical). 2. Stylistic studies extend beyond the observation of phonological, lexical, and grammatical elements to various levels of analysis. …”
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What is a compound? The main criteria for compoundhood by Altakhaineh Abdel Rahman Mitib

“…These criteria - orthographic, phonological, syntactic and semantic in nature - have been proposed to make a distinction between compounds and phrases. …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by F.G. Agayev, H.H. Asadov, M.E. Omarov, S.S. Aliyeva

“…Accurate determination of phonological cycle of vegetational growth is essential for increase of effectiveness of agriculture. …”

Implicit learning of unfamiliar tone sandhi patterns in lexical recognition by Ting Zou, Xinbing Luo

“…The confidence rating results suggest that participants were unaware of the structural sandhi knowledge, but the reaction time data of the judgement test indicate that the sandhi knowledge was learned with awareness at the level of noticing.DiscussionThe results have been discussed in light of theories of implicit learning and the findings of previous research on phonological learning.…”
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Fortis-lenis distinction of fricatives and plosives in Welsh – Phonetically distinctive factors by Michał Baran

“…Previous analyses of articulatory timing revealed potentially distinctive features characteristic for Welsh plosives and fricatives. Even though the phonological features such as [spread glottis] or [voice] may be used both for distinguishing between the series of plosives and fricatives, the phonetic features responsible for the distinction are likely to differ due to the different phonetic nature of the manner of articulation and the position of fricatives and plosives (Honeybone 2005: 333–334). …”
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Phonetic variants of Majorcan Catalan /ʒ/: A controlled study in societal language contact by Marta Ramírez, Miquel Simonet

“…This suggests that, in Majorcan Catalan, individual phonological (internalized) representations of /ʒ/, and not only production habits, are modulated by the speaker’s background—some speakers have /j/ and others have /ʒ/. …”
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Palatal assibilation before [w]? The case of Armenian, Saka, and Luwian by Hans Henrich Hock

“…So far, no principled phonetic or phonological explanations for this behavior have been proposed. …”
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A Critical Review of the Chapter Five of The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective Entitled: “The Caspian Region and South Azerbaijan: Caspian and Tatic”... by Saeedreza Yousefi, Mahinnaz Mirdehghan Farashah

“…The research investigates the geographical, lexical, grammatical, and phonological characteristics of Caspian and Tati, two North Western Iranian (NWI) language families, which are spoken in the south and west of the Caspian sea region. …”
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The importance of interlanguage in language teaching: an analysis of its development in l2 learners by Saverio Barone

“…The research focuses particularly on the difficulties that Russian-speaking learners encounter when learning Italian. The phonological and grammatical differences between Russian and Italian can lead to frequent errors. …”
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