Ekialdeko /o/-ren igoeraren testuinguru fonologikoaren bila / Looking for the phonological context of /o/-raising in Eastern Basque by Ander Egurtzegi

“…After compiling examples of this process and specifying its context, I will propose that this process is more accurately described as raising of phonetically nasalized [õ]. This sound change is accounted for by means of the phonetic ambiguity in vowel height inherent to nasalization. …”
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Vowel System Sandbox: Complex System Modelling of Language Change by Sean A. Fulop, Hannah Scott

“…This is the first software that provides a computational model of sound change in language by implementing first principles of speech perception and production.   …”
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Historical phonology in service of subgrouping. Two laws of final syllables in the common prehistory of Baltic and Slavonic by Eugen Hill

“…The first development is the loss of the PIE word-final short *i after a long vowel followed by a labial consonant. This sound change must have occurred later than the secondary shortening of long vowels before word-final PIE *m which is shared by Celtic. …”
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Lenition of syllable-initial /p t k/ in a variety of Andalusian Spanish: Effects of linguistic factors and speech rate by Fernando Melero-García

“…This study has significant implications for the study of sound change and language variation which are discussed in this article. …”
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The Comparison of Phonological Terminology in Klaić’s Orthographic Manuals with other Orthographic Manuals by Ana Mihaljević

“…Special focus is on the problems of sound change terminology. The author lists all sound changes mentioned in Klaić’s manuals, analyses the terms used to denote them as well as their definitions.…”
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The long history of a syncretism in Italo-Romance and Ladin verb morphology by Maiden, M

“…It shows that this syncretism was originally an accidental effect of sound change, but that subsequent morphological changes replicated that pattern. …”

Dissimilation can be gradient: evidence from Aberystwyth English by Adèle Jatteau, Michaela Hejná

“…Dissimilation is classically considered as a phonetically categorical sound change. In contrast to this assumption, this paper presents evidence for a phonetically gradient pattern of aspiration dissimilation found in Aberystwyth English (Wales): an aspiration feature is consistently reduced in the vicinity of another aspiration feature. …”
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Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law by Chelsea Sanker

“…The Telugu results provide a parallel demonstrating the phonetic plausibility of the sound change proposed in Winter’s Law, with vowel lengthening before voiced unaspirated stops but not before voiced aspirated stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic. …”
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Identification of the Etymon of Indo-European 'Moist', Sinitic 'South', Tibeto-Burman 'Sun, Day, Sky' and Hungarian nap 'Sun, Day' by Gao, J.

“…These two etyma form a rhyme correspondence. This regular sound change validates the etymological connection in question. …”
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Regional variation in high vowel deletion in New Brunswick French: Preliminary observations by Wladyslaw Cichocki

“…Deletion rates are significantly higher among younger speakers than older speakers, indicating that this may be a sound change in progress. The results highlight an interaction between high vowel deletion and /t, d/ affrication. …”
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Syllable Structure and Nasalization Change in Makassar Language by Nurul Khasanah, Agus Subiyanto

“…The result shows the types of sound and syllabic changing. They are; (a) sound changing of [ak-] becomes [ʔ] named glottalization; (b) sounds changing of [ak-] becomes nasalization; (c) gemination of [ak-] and [an-]; (d) sound changing of / an-/ becomes [aŋ-]; (e) sound release and insertion of prefix /an-/; (f) sound change and nasalization. …”
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Areale Variation von /r/-Realisierungen in schweizerdeutschen Dialekten. by Stephan Schmid, Adrian Leemann, Dieter Studer-Joho, Marie-José Kolly

“…Comparing our data with traditional dialectological sources, we find evidence for the hypothesis that the alveolar realisation of /r/ has been extensively replaced by uvular variants in large parts of the northeast; apparently, a similar sound change is now in progress in the rural areas around Basel.…”
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Development of voice onset time in an ongoing phonetic differentiation in Austrian German plosives: Reversing a near-merger by Luef Eva Maria

“…Sound change in the form of plosive mergers has been reported for a variety of languages and is the result of a reduction of phonetic distance between two (or more) sounds. …”
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The Phonetic Analysis of Z Rime Alternation Phenomena in Changyuan Dialect of Henan Province by Wei Mengyang, Wu Mengjiao

“…By analyzing the Z rime alternation phenomena in Changyuan Dialect of Henan Province, the present study argues that the phenomenon of one word having two different kinds of Z rime alternation forms in this dialect is due to it that the basic rime of the word preserves the Z rime alternation form that is formed before and after the sound change of the basic rime respectively. At the mean time, the development speed of Z rime alternation forms is slower than that of the basic rimes, so the Z rime alternation form preserves the glide of its corresponding basic rime of the early period and that’s exactly what leads to the differences between the glide of the present basic rime and that of the corresponding Z rime alternation form. …”
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Optimality theory and historical phonology: an example from nasal harmony in Mundurukú by Gessiane Picanço

“…It attempts to show that the Optimality Theory provides new ways of accounting for sound change, other than constraint re-ranking. A comparison of Mundurukú and Kuruaya's modern systems points out that the source system, Proto-Mundurukú, had similar properties to those currently observed in Kuruaya. …”
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Divergence across Bade Varieties ‒ A Case of Naboopposition? by Georg Ziegelmeyer

“…While certain innovations may be attributed to the influence of Kanuri, e.g., a sound change r > r̃ in Western Bade, other features are difficult to accommodate in terms of convergence with neighboring languages. …”
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Ming Shilu as Evidence of Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents in Siamese by Shinnakrit Tangsiriwattanakul

“…Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents (DVO) was part of a transformative series of sound changes that characterised all the Tai languages: the original voiced stops became either aspirated or unaspirated when devoiced. …”
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Le mot carien pour ‘chef’, une nouvelle racine anatolienne et un changement phonétique carien-grec by Bianconi, M

“…Additionally, it offers evidence for a sound change that likely occurred during borrowing of words from Carian into Greek. …”

Acoustic Pronunciation Variations Modeling for Standard Malay Speech Recognition by Seman, Noraini, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman

“…Meanwhile, a partial or sound change happens when the acoustic realization is ambiguous between two phonemes. …”

从“去声别义”看上古汉语声调系统 = A study of archaic Chinese tonal system from a morphological perspective by 余洁琳 Eng, Jie Ling

“…By designing an experiment and analyzing the results, this paper will propose a new conclusion for the differing viewpoints by using Occam’s Razor and also rely on the most plausible sound change as the 2 parameteres.…”
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