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Ladinia dolomitica
2020
Scopo di questo contributo è offrire una panoramica sull’area che viene usualmente definita “Ladinia dolomitica” e sulla varietà linguistica che vi viene tradizionalmente parlata, il ladino. L'articolo descrive brevemente la storia dell'area e dello sviluppo del ladino, e in seguito descrive le caratteristiche fonologiche, morfologiche, sintattiche e lessicali principali del ladino, che lo distinguono dalle vicine varietà italoromanze. In seguito si illustrano le peculiarità linguistiche dei singoli dialetti ladini, che sono parlati ognuno in una valle diversa delle Dolomiti. L'articolo è fortemente innovativo e originale, perché permette di ascoltare i file audio che esemplificano i tratti…
L'estructura sil·làbica del dialecte valencià
1997
Aquest treball se centra a descriure l'estructura sil·làbica del valencià en el marc de la teoria de l'optimitat. En concret, s'analitzen els mecanismes que determinen la sil·labificació de les consonants com a obertures o com a codes. També s'estudia en quines circumstàncies les consonants poden aparéixer com a codes i obertures complexes. Pel que respecta a les vocals, es descriuen els principis que determinen la incorporació d'aquests segments als nuclis i als marges sil·labics. Finalment, l'últim capítol de la tesi es dedica a analitzar com el sistema de principis de la llengua s'encarrega de seleccionar la forma òptima dels pronoms febles en cada entorn.
Sobre alguns contrastos fonològics en l'entonació del català
2021
The main goal of this article is to provide evidence in favor of the phonological character of some intonational contrasts in Catalan. First, the article shows that tonal alignment differences with respect to metrically strong positions are crucial for the distinction between a yes-no question and a wh-question (cf. "¿Que l’ha llogada?" vs. "¿Qui l’ha llogada?") and between a command and a request ("¡Vine!" vs. "¡Vine!") in Central Catalan. Second, the article reports the major results from the application of the Categorical Perception Paradigm to a pitch height contrast in Majorcan Catalan (Vanrell 2006a). Experimental resuls show that a small variation in the pitch height of the pretonic …
The GraphoGame Method: The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment for Learning to Read
2014
This paper provides an overview of the GraphoGame method. Both theoretical and methodological aspects related to the method are presented. The method’s guiding principles are based on the prevailing theories and experimental research findings on learning and teaching basic reading skills in alphabetic languages, especially from the point of view of a struggling reader. Because the nature of the target language and its relation to its writing system play central roles in the GraphoGame method, this approach requires the method to be flexible in order to be valid for learners of different languages and orthographies. Thus, the aim of the developed technology is to provide an appropriate readi…
De la coarticulación a la armonía vocálica en valenciano
2013
En la bibliografía se considera que la armonía vocálica surge generalmente como una fonologización de un proceso previo de coarticulación parcial entre vocales. El objetivo de este estudio es presentar dos variedades del valenciano septentrional que corresponderían a los dos estadios en la consolidación de la armonía. Por una parte, la variedad de Nules, que presenta en general elevados índices de coarticulación entre una vocal labial tónica /ɔ/ y una vocal baja postónica, pero que solo presenta igualación total de los rasgos en un contexto especialmente asimétrico: cuando la vocal baja aparece en posición postónica interna. Por otra, la variedad de Borriana, en que una vocal baja se asimil…
Vocalic adjustments under Positional Markedness in Catalan and other Romance languages
2013
While in a wide range of phonological theories preservation under prominence is a well noticed effect, there are few explanations for the accumulation of prominent properties in a particular position. Both tendencies, however, as well as their interaction, are particularly suited to formal expression within Optimality Theory. The aim of this paper is to show that the word-initial position is a site of vowel preservation (Positional Faithfulness) and a point of attraction of salient features (Positional Markedness). The focus is on the less familiar effect of get-together prominent elements in order to shed new light on several vocalic adjustments that have been unsatisfactorily explained in…
Fast ForWord -interventio-ohjelman vaikutuksia fonologiseen prosessointiin ja yleiseen englannin kielitaitoon suomalaisilla lukiolaisnuorilla, joilla…
2008
Dynamics of morphological processing in pre-school children with and without familial risk for dyslexia
2020
Difficulties in phonological processing and speech perception are associated with developmental dyslexia, but there is considerable diversity across people with developmental dyslexia (e.g., dyslexics with and without phonological difficulties). Phonological and morphological awareness are both known to play an important role in reading acquisition. Problems in morpho-phonological information processing could arguably be associated with developmental dyslexia, especially for Finnish, which is a rich morphologically language. We used MEG to study the connection between morpho-phonology in the Finnish language and familial risk for developmental dyslexia. We measured event-related fields (ERF…
Children show right-lateralized effects of spoken word-form learning
2017
It is commonly thought that phonological learning is different in young children compared to adults, possibly due to the speech processing system not yet having reached full native-language specialization. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms of phonological learning in children are poorly understood. We employed magnetoencephalography (MEG) to track cortical correlates of incidental learning of meaningless word forms over two days as 6±8-year-olds overtly repeated them. Native (Finnish) pseudowords were compared with words of foreign sound structure (Korean) to investigate whether the cortical learning effects would be more dependent on previous proficiency in the language rather than ma…