Electropalatographic data for several front lingual consonants, i.e., the dental /t/, the alveolars /n, l, s, r/ and the alveolopalatals /t∫, ∫, ʎ, ɲ/, show differences in constriction anteriority among Catalan dialects varying in the progression Valencian > Eastern, with the Majorcan dialect occupying an intermediate position. These differences do not conform to speaker- dependent differences ...

A core finding of sociolinguistic research is that phonological changes may become subject to social evaluation as they propagate through a speech community. Much work has analyzed the social evaluation of innovations by categorizing them in terms of their salience, or the degree of stigma/prestige attached to them. However, recent studies have attempted to develop a more sophisticated understa...

There is a widely accepted chronology of sound laws, covering the transition from Proto-West Germanic to Old English, found in every handbook English. This contains laws whose only function cancel effects previous ones, such as ‘retraction’ and ‘smoothing’, reversing ‘fronting’ ‘breaking’. allocated relatively short period between arrival Anglo-Saxons 5th century oldest Early English sources ar...

We argue that the C-element que, following fronted wh-elements and focused elements more generally in Brazilian Portuguese, is realized as Fin, rather than Foc (MENDES KANDYBOWICZ, 2021; pace MIOTO, 2001; MIOTO KATO, 2005). put together three observations from literature: (i) appearance of que contingent on wh/focus fronting; (ii) introduces a finite clause, (iii) disappears under sluicing. pre...

The study observes the impact of consistency input on acquisition English front vowels /ɪ/, /ɪ: /, /e/, /æ/ concerning jaw opening (correlated with F1), tongue fronting F2) and duration vowels. This is a quasi-experimental that has ‘pre-test-post-test control group’ framework. Three intact class groups, at middle level from public girls school, were assigned to experimental groups group. Experi...

While the debate between nativism and empiricism exists since several decades, surprisingly few common learning problems have been proposed for assessing the two opposing views. Most empiricist researchers have focused on a relatively small number of linguistic problems, such as Auxiliary Fronting or Anaphoric One. In the current paper we extend the number of common test cases to a much larger ...

The debate between empiricism and nativism goes back to the very beginning of philosophy. More recently, the nature of linguistic structure has been the focus of discussion in the field of psycholinguistics. The poverty of stimulus argument for innateness of syntactic knowledge (Chomsky, 1980; Crain & Pietroski, 2001) is one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of languag...