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Scharinger, Mathias; Lahiri, Aditi – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, Phonology, Nouns
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Trudgill, Peter; Gordon, Elizabeth; Lewis, Gillian – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1998
Discusses two conflicting hypotheses concerning the nature of the New Zealand English short vowel system. Concludes that both hypotheses are to a certain extent wrong and to a certain extent correct. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries