Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Publisher "Cambridge University Press"

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    • Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic 

      Kulikov, Vladimir; Mohsenzadeh, Fatemeh M.; Syam, Rawand M. ( Cambridge University Press , 2021 , Article)
      Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ...

    • German metaphysics 

      Sturgess K.C. ( Cambridge University Press , 2018 , Book chapter)
      Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed to earn money to live. He had left school early, and by the time he began work on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale he had been a ...

    • Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops 

      Bahrani, Nawal; Kulikov, Vladimir ( Cambridge University Press , 2023 , Article)
      In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments ...

    • Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi 

      Ahmad, Rizwan ( Cambridge University Press , 2011 , Article)
      In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...

    • The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels 

      Al-Mazrouei, Aisha; Negm, Aisha; Kulikov, Vladimir ( Cambridge University Press , 2023 , Article)
      Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located ...