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Peer reviewedSankoff, David; Rousseau, Pascale – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Combinational characterization and statistical and computational techniques for generalizing rule analysis to the inference of rule order are applied to the problems of the reduction of the syllable-final consonants s, n, and r in Caribbean Spanish. Results show that aspiration and deletion can be seen as intrinsically ordered in both s and r…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedVincent, Diane; Sankoff, David – Language Variation and Change, 1992
Analysis of the distribution of punctors, a class of markers commonly classified as nervous tics, fillers, or signs of hesitation, in one corpus of French is presented. Some aspects of their conditioning are explained in terms of the interaction of etymological, discursive, syntactic, and social constraints. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), French, Interpersonal Communication
