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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Assessment of learning difficulties in the category of children with dyslexia by Trubus Raharjo, Supra Wimbarti

“…Materials testing with aspects of phonological awareness and orthographic aspects. The next measurement is done by conducting an intelligence test using WISC III. …”
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Quantifying and Characterizing Phonetic Reduction in Italian Natural Speech by Loredana Schettino, Francesco Cutugno

“…In two different analysis layers, we attempted to align the “phonological” expected form and observed realisation. …”
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A posteriori modality, implicative modality by abduction. A case study: he must have been drunk to have said that by Geneviève Girard-Gillet

“…The construction functions as a whole (syntactically, semantically, phonologically) and builds up its own interpretation, through the reconciliation of jarring viewpoints by the speaker. …”
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À la recherche du substrat cognitif du submorphème SM- by Line Argoud

“…From the definitions of ‘sm- words’ attested in the Oxford English Dictionary and the English Dialect Dictionary, I shall endeavour to show that the phonological invariance of this heuristically-formed class corresponds to a submorphemic invariance which may be traced back to a very ancient process of conceptualization of the human body. …”
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Analyse de l’effet L1 dans l’émergence de l’auxiliation en français L2 by Cyrille Granget

“…The prosodic hypothesis proposes that the auxiliary in French L2 is initially an epenthetical vowel due to the syllabification of French L2 influenced by the phonological and prosodic structure of Japanese. Overall, this investigation shows the influence of the L1 and underlines the benefits of considering more than one hypothesis to analyze the emergence of auxiliary constructions in an L2.…”
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AN OT ACCOUNT OF PHONOTACTIC AND CODA NEUTRALIZATION OF ENGLISH LOANS IN PILIBHIT HINDI-URDU by Mohd Hamid Raza

“… This paper provided the basic information of the phonological processes as the Coda Neutralization and Phonotactics of English Loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). …”
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Language Interference in Arabic Learning: A Case Study of Islamic Boarding Schools in Indonesia by Muhamad Solehudin, Yusuf Arisandi

“…Findings reveal that language interference manifests at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels, significantly affecting students' confidence and performance in Arabic. …”
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Modality Specific Cerebro-Cerebellar Activations in Verbal Working Memory: An fMRI Study by Matthew P. Kirschen, S. H. Annabel Chen, John E. Desmond

“…Verbal working memory (VWM) engages frontal and temporal/parietal circuits subserving the phonological loop, as well as, superior and inferior cerebellar regions which have projections from these neocortical areas. …”
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Effect of Organic Mulching on Soil Moisture, Yield, and Yield Contributing Components of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) by Goitom Teame, Alemtsahay Tsegay, Berhanu Abrha

“…Soil water content, phonological characteristics yield, and yield components of sesame were collected. …”
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<i>Test Fonetico per la Prima Infanzia (TFPI)</i>: A New Instrument to Assess Italian Toddlers’ Phonetic Development by Claudio Zmarich, Sabrina Bonichini, Marta Motterle, Maria Palmieri, Emanuela Sanfelici, Serena Bonifacio

“…These data were then imported into Phon, an extremely suitable software for conducting analyses of phonological and speech data. We compiled the Phonetic Inventory (PhI) and calculated the Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) for each child, taking into consideration the allophones of Italian, in order to not compute them as errors. …”
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End-to-End Speech Synthesis for Tibetan Multidialect by Xiaona Xu, Li Yang, Yue Zhao, Hui Wang

“…The model avoids using a large number of Tibetan dialect expertise for processing some time-consuming tasks, such as phonetic analysis and phonological annotation. Additionally, it can directly synthesize Lhasa-Ü-Tsang and Amdo pastoral speech on the existing text annotation. …”
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Preparatory Switches of Auditory Spatial and Non-Spatial Attention Among Simultaneous Voices by Aureliu Lavric, Elisa Schmied

“…Picture cues resulted in better performance than word cues, especially when the interval between the cue and the stimulus was short, suggesting that (presumably phonological) processes involved in the recognition of the word cue interfered with the (near) concurrent encoding of the target voice’s speech.…”
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A Symmetric Approach to Agreement in Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) Direct Arguments by Iraj Mehrbaskhsh, Gholamhossein Karimi -Doostan

“…In the asymmetric approach, these arguments are assumed to be fully specified for relevant φ-features, which are deleted at PF (Phonological Form) after agreement, whereas in the symmetric approach, they are merged as underspecified for relevant features and acquire their interpretation via agreement. …”
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Investigation of changes in surface urban heat-island (SUHI) in day and night using multi-temporal MODIS sensor data products (Case Study: Tehran metropolitan) by Sirous Hashemi Darebadami, Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Seyed Kazem AlaviPanah, Mohammad maleki, Reza Bayat

“…The results also showed that different of land cover thermal properties, albedo and elevation was the most important factors is the diurnal changes of SUHI while phonological changes of vegetation and albedo, was the most important factors in seasonal changes of SUHI.…”
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Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Growth and Seed Yield of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) by Gebregergis Zenawi, Amare Mizan

“…Under optimal environmental conditions, nitrogen fertilizer has no effect on phonological traits but on the growth parameters. In the potential areas, application of 46–100 kg·N/ha gives maximum yield and lowering the application of N to less than 46 kg·N/ha in marginal areas is economical.…”
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Improving reading competence in aphasia with combined aerobic exercise and phono-motor treatment: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. by Olga Boukrina, Elizabeth B Madden, Brian M Sandroff, Xiangqin Cui, Abubakar Yamin, Yekyung Kong, William W Graves

“…AET, known for its positive impact on cerebral blood flow (CBF) and oxygenation, is hypothesized to facilitate neuroplasticity when administered before PMT, an intensive therapy aimed at strengthening phonological processing. While most existing treatments focus on spoken language production, this study builds on evidence that PMT can also improve reading skills. …”
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Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs by Amritha Mallikarjun, Emily Shroads, Rochelle S. Newman

“…Dogs’ name recognition in the second study was mediated by the number of phonemes in the dogs’ name, suggesting that phonological context plays a role in degraded speech comprehension.…”
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