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The Phonology of Consonants: Harmony, Dissimilation and Correspondence Open
The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the avoidance of surface correspondence relationships. It d…
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An essential bifunctional enzyme in <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> for itaconate dissimilation and leucine catabolism Open
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the etiological agent of tuberculosis. One-fourth of the global population is estimated to be infected with Mtb, accounting for ∼1.3 million deaths in 2017. As part of the immune response to Mtb infectio…
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Dissimilation can be gradient: evidence from Aberystwyth English Open
Dissimilation is classically considered as a phonetically categorical sound change. In contrast to this assumption, this paper presents evidence for a phonetically gradient pattern of aspiration dissimilation found in Aberystwyth English (…
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<i>R</i>-acetoin accumulation and dissimilation in <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Open
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a 2,3-butanediol producer, and R-acetoin is an intermediate of 2,3-butanediol production. R-acetoin accumulation and dissimilation in K. pneumoniae was studied here. A budC mutant, which has lost 2,3-butanediol deh…
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Bidirectionality of language contact: Spanish and Catalan vowels Open
The disproportionate number of studies in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands observing Spanish contact effects in Catalan production, rather than Catalan contact effects in Spanish production, is an oversight of bidirectionality and the pr…
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Coupling CFD Simulation and Field Experiments in Summer to Prove Feng Shui Optimizes Courtyard Wind Environments: A Case Study of Prince Kung’s Mansion in Beijing Open
Feng shui in ancient China was harmonized with the natural environment. The layout of houses following feng shui is conducive to a comfortable wind environment. To explore the positive influence of feng shui on ventilation, this study take…
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Understanding the benefits of migration: multigenerational transmission, gender and educational outcomes of Turks in Europe Open
Research commonly compares the educational outcomes of migrants and the second generation to their native peers in destination countries, often finding the former groups lagging behind in education. Their outcomes are rarely compared to th…
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Basin-scale variability of microbial methanol uptake in the Atlantic Ocean Open
Methanol is a climate-active gas and the most abundant oxygenated volatile organic compound (OVOC) in the atmosphere and seawater. Marine methylotrophs are aerobic bacteria that utilise methanol from seawater as a source of carbon (assimil…
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The transnational life course: an integrated and unified theoretical concept for migration research Open
Migration research developed significantly in the past decades. However, with the life course approach and the concept of transnational migration, there are still two different, as yet largely unconnected conceptual perspectives on migrati…
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Segmental Blocking in Dissimilation: An Argument for Co-Occurrence Constraints Open
Most contemporary work assumes that dissimilation is motivated by featural co-occurrence constraints: a process that maps /X...X/ to [X...Y] (for example) is explained by positing a ban on co-occurring [X]s (e.g. Alderete 1997, Suzuki 1998…
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Seeing like Borders: Convergence Zone as a Post-Zomian Model Open
This article examines the interests and concerns of two ethnic communities straddling the Sino-Tibetan borderlands—the Gyalrongwa and Qiangzu—in the reconfigurations of their relations with the Chinese state, the Han, the Tibetans, and wit…
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Game Theory-Based Analysis of Local Governments’ Behavioral Dissimilation in the Third-Party Soil Pollution Control under Chinese-Style Fiscal Decentralization Open
The participation of a third party of the environmental service enterprise theoretically increases the level and efficiency of soil pollution control in China. However, Chinese-style fiscal decentralization may have a negative impact on th…
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The Viking outgroup in early medieval English chronicles Open
This paper relates diachronic change in discourse strategies of the Viking-age historical writing to political changes of the period and to communities of practice that produce these histories and chronicles. It examines the labels and ste…
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The left edge of the word in the Berber derivational morphology Open
In many Berber varieties, causative and reciprocal verbs are built by means of monoconsonantal prefixes attached to a stem. These prefixes are realized as single or geminated depending on the properties of the stem. In this paper, it is ar…
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Gradient dissimilation in Mongolian: implications for diachrony Open
This paper explores the implications of 'gradient dissimilation' (Jatteau & Hejná 2016) for the diachronic implementation of long-distance dissimilation (e.g. ChVCh > CVCh). Since dissimilation is usually considered as lexically sporadic, …
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Pronominierte Nominalformen im Altlitauischen Open
Zusammenfassung In Old Lithuanian texts (16-17 century), there are more than a hundred definite forms of adjectives and participles with unshortened pronominal ending -jie in the masculine nominative plural, e. g. baiſuſghie ‘the dreadful …
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Nonnative be like native speakers: The phonological processes of characters’ English pronunciation in Black Panther movie Open
This study aimed at investigating the English phonological process of characters’ pronunciation while pronouncing the English words in the Black Panther movie. The characters of this movie used the dialect of isiXhosa which is spoken widel…
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Long-distance Liquid Coarticulation in American English Open
This study finds weak evidence for long-range liquid coarticulation in a Southern California speaker. We compare vowel formants across nearly 1000 repetitions of the sentence he said it oughta be _______, containing target words with /r/, …
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Linguistic convergence within the 'Kachin' languages Open
Speakers of the various Kachin languages often use the expression ‘Kachin’ or ‘Kachin language’ when speaking in English or Burmese to refer to the Jinghpaw language. There is, however, no single ‘Kachin’ language. The languages included i…
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The Process of Dissimilation in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study Open
Unlike the process of assimilation, which is a phonological process in which two sounds that are different become more alike, dissimilation is a process in which sounds that are alike become different.The present paper is concerned with sh…
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The Customary Identity of the Coppersmiths Clan in Oltenia: Between Tradition and Modernity Open
The coppersmiths’ uniqueness as a Roma clan is given by their traditional crafting legacy, as they themselves acknowledge. They are one of the more conservative Roma clans. Encouraged by their previous nomadic lifestyle, it hasn’t allowed …
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Two notes on Proto-Ersuic Open
This paper looks at the history of Tosu using 'forward reconstruction'. It concludes that Proto-Ersuic changed *-im to *-am already before its breakup as a unity, but the ‘brightening’ of *-a- to -i- took place independently in Tosu and Li…
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An Optimality–theoretic Account of the Evolution of Intervocalic Sonorants from Latin to Spanish and Portuguese Open
From Latin to Spanish and Portuguese, the natural class of sonorant consonants – laterals, rhotics, and nasals – often underwent drastic phonological changes. It is noteworthy that the tendency toward dissimilation, in accordance with Disp…
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Dissimilation at the Interface: Nominalization as the Key to a Longstanding Puzzle Open
The narrow goal is to provide a complete account of the doubl-ing effect (Ross 1972) within a Minimalist and Distributed Morphology approach. In particular, I examine the effect within nominals and show that the pattern can be fully captur…
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Inherent Biases of Recurrent Neural Networks for Phonological Assimilation and Dissimilation Open
A recurrent neural network model of phonological pattern learning is proposed. The model is a relatively simple neural network with one recurrent layer, and displays biases in learning that mimic observed biases in human learning. Single-f…
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Aggressive reduplication and dissimilation in Sundanese Open
Most cases of long-distance consonant dissimilation can be characterized as local (occurring across a vowel) or unbounded (occurring at all distances). The only known exception is rhotic dissimilation in Sundanese (Cohn 1992; Bennett 2015a…
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Research on the path of green technology innovation driven by the Environmental Protection Tax Law: Based on data of heavy polluting enterprises Open
Environmental Protection Tax Law (EPTL) is a compulsory environmental regulation measure adopted by China to deal with environmental problems. However, with the advancement of implementation, the EPTL produces a dissimilation effect and da…
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The Anatolian Dissimilation Rule Revisited Open
The Anatolian Dissimilation Rule (ADR) was first introduced in an oral presentation by us in 2006 and first published by us in 2012, though it had, in several fundamental aspects, been prefigured in articles by, e.g., Gillian Hart and Birg…
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Basin-scale variability of microbial methanol uptake in the Atlantic Ocean Open
Methanol is a climate active gas and the most abundant oxygenated volatile organic compound (OVOC) in the atmosphere and seawater. Marine methylotrophs are aerobic bacteria that utilise methanol from seawater as a source of carbon (assimil…
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Evidence for perceptual hypercorrection in American r-dissimilation: A pilot study Open
We tested Ohala's (1993) theory that dissimilation results from perceptual hypercorrection for assimilation. We created nonce words by splicing syllables containing /r/ to continuations that either did or did not contain another /r/. When …