4 articles in this issue
Martin Krämer, Olga Urek
Introduction to the special issue
Joanna Zaleska, Matías Guzmán Naranjo
In the present study, we report on an artificial language learning experiment aiming to test the idea that it is easier to learn palatalization before a front vowel than it is to learn depalatalization in the same context. The motivation for the study com... see more
Islam Youssef
In the speech of some educated Cairenes, the coronal stops /t d t? d?/ acquire a secondary palatal articulation before high front vowels and glides, resulting in [tj] or [dj]. Based on first-hand data, this article provides a detailed phonetic and phonolo... see more
Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver
Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization. When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes palatal (uku-lum-a ? uku-lu?-w-a). Two main types of analysis have been proposed for th... see more