The Effect of Forms’ Ratio of Conditioning on Word-Final /s/ Voicing in Mexican Spanish by Earl Kjar Brown

“…There is mounting evidence that words that occur proportionately more often in contexts that condition a phonetically-motivated sound change end up changing more rapidly than other words. …”
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An Experimental Analysis on Degree Adverb “Hen” of Yuanjiang Dialect Xiang Chinese by Fen Zhang, Qi Gong

“…According to phonetic experiments, the sound change of “hen” in YJD lies in the change of tone value without transforming the initial consonant and vowel. …”
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Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research by Ranjan Sen

“…Bermúdez-Otero 2015) provides an account of how a sound change might develop over the history of a language, from its beginnings in the pressures of speaking and hearing, through its progress to a cognitively-controlled process and maturation into a categorical phenomenon, to its final resting-place as a lexical or morphological pattern. …”
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TO THE PROBLEM OF THE CONSONANT LENGTHENING IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE: DIACHRONIC ASPECT by І. Б. Царалунга

“…The purpose of our study is to identify features of the assimilation process of the following j by softened consonants, to analyze examples of j assimilation towards their territorial extension and sound change chronology, basing on the Ukrainian written reminders of the XIV – XV centuries. …”
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A different path to [f]: labiodentalization in Faifi Arabic by Stuart Davis, Abdullah Alfaifi

“…Referencing Honeybone (2016), we maintain that FA labiodentalization instantiates an endogenous (i.e. internally-motivated) regular (i.e. non-sporadic) sound change specific to root-initial position resulting from misperception.…”
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The Diphthong <ei> in Variationist Studies of Brazilian Portuguese: A Systematic Literature Review by Gabriel Antunes de Araujo, Nancy Mendes Torres Vieira

“…Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a single vowel. …”
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Frequency-predicted shifts independent of word-specific phonetic details by Chelsea Sanker

“…Some sound changes seem to proceed at different rates depending on lexical frequency; these are often interpreted as reflecting phonetically detailed exemplar memories, with changes spreading via lexical diffusion (Pierrehumbert 2002; Bybee 2012). …”
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Application of the comparative method to vocoid sequences in Nivkh by Halm, Robert

“…In the present paper, the correspondences of vocoid sequences among six attested varieties are examined, allowing an important sound change affecting one major variety group (Proto-Nivkh /*a, *i, *u/ > Amur Nivkh, West Sakhalin Nivkh, and North Sakhalin Nivkh /@/ when followed by a glide) to be reconstructed, as well as the applicable environment for this change to be precisely circumscribed, and furthermore allowing for an important phonological contrast for the proto-language to be reconstructed which is not well documented in the living varieties; namely, a contrast between sequences of vowel-glide and similar diphthongs, /*aw, *iw, *aj, *uj/ ̸= /*au, *iu, *ai, *ui/. …”
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Tibetan <ḥ-> as a plain initial and its place in old Tibetan phonology by Hill, Nathan W.

“…It is concluded in addition that in Old Tibetan <ḥ> represented a voiced velar fricative in all syllable positions and that the Common Tibetan values of prenasalization before consonants and vowel lengthening as a final are due to sound change from Old Tibetan to Common Tibetan.…”
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On the apparent labio-velar nasals of Kam by Solnit, David B.

“…In historical linguistics, certain commonplace sound changes can be presumed to happen in only one direction, usually for readily apparent phonetic reasons. …”
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Italo‐Romance Metaphony and the Tuscan Diphthongs by Maiden, M

“…The data also show how morphological analogy may play a significant role in the diffusion of the effects of sound change.…”

Neural–Behavioral Relation in Phonetic Discrimination Modulated by Language Background by Tian Christina Zhao

“…By focusing on the mismatch negativity/response (MMN/R), a widely studied index of neural sensitivity to sound change, researchers have observed larger MMNs for native contrasts than for nonnative ones in EEG, but also a more focused and efficient neural activation pattern for native contrasts in MEG. …”
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The Sekujam language of West Kalimantan (Indonesia) by James T. Collins, Herpanus

“…Almost two hundred years ago, O. van Kessel identified a language group based on a characteristic sound change that yielded -ai in the final position of some words (Van Kessel 1850: 166); Hudson (1970) named this group “Ibanic” after the Iban language widely spoken in Sarawak. …”
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24.963 Linguistic Phonetics, Fall 2005 by Flemming, Edward

“…It explores the influence of the production and perception systems on phonological patterns and sound change. Acoustic analysis and experimental techniques are also discussed.…”
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Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English by Bailey, G, Nichols, SJ, Turton, D, Baranowski, M

“…Retraction of /s/ to a more [ʃ]-like sound is a well-known sound change attested across many varieties of English for /stɹ/ words, e.g. street and strong. …”

Latin rhotacism: a case study in the life cycle of phonological processes by Roberts, P

“…<p>Rhotacism in Latin is a well-known phonological generalisation which, in its paradigm cases, can be stated as a regular sound change of [s] to [r] between vowels. This change/rule is posited on the basis both of comparative evidence, e.g. …”

Data, theory, and explanation: the view from Romance by Ledgeway, A, Maiden, MD

“…Recurrent themes in their work have been, respectively, morphosyntactic change (Ledgeway) and sound change and its morphological consequences (Maiden). …”

Problem identification and solution of voice change phenomenon in vocal singing based on the AHP method by Zhang Xiaoxiao

“…At the same time, for the problem that the hierarchical analysis method is not strongly targeted, the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is proposed for optimization, and then the fuzzy hierarchical analysis method is used to analyze the sound change phenomenon from the three primary indicators of breathing rhythm, resonance effect and sound representation and the related secondary indicators. …”
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Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages by Johann-Mattis List

“…Cognate words that fail to conform with expected patterns can further point to various kinds of exceptions in sound change, such as analogy or assimilation of frequent words. …”
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On the treatment of super-heavy syllables in Arabic Dialects: an Optimality Theoretic approach to historical typology by Hassan Bokhari

“…According to Cho (1998, 45), “each step of a sound change should be viewed as a change in the ranking of constraints.” …”
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