Apparent time changes in the phonological forms and pragmatic use of because in Bolton, Lancashire English

Thus, if French toddlers compensate for non- native assimilations such as our hypothetical place assimilation, they should show the same pattern as in the two previous experiments;

Among the syllable- related features are shwa epenthesis, Umlaut, resyllabification, the n-rule, voice assimilation and the presence of shwa in stressed syllables (in

4 The exceptions are the 1st and 3rd person singular forms of the indicative imperfect, of the conditional present and of the subjunctive present and imperfect, none of which

We have applied this method to the semantic field of lodging in French and showed that the variation in the semantic representations of this semantic field mirrors an ongoing

For example, at the word level, pitch has mainly a distinctive function in tone languages (like Chinese) a culminative function in stress languages (like English), and a

In case the orientation and complication sections preceding the apex are quite long, intensity may be reset at some point between the beginning of the narrative and the apex, but

The survey confirms that Newcastle English belongs to the UNBI group, since the rising intonations seem to indicate that sentences are completed (especially the

That said, three speakers out of 9 do have variants they used exclusively in the less formal context, and, in addition, these variants (or at least