Journal Article

‘Phoneme fluctuation’: Empirical and theoretical limitations

The squib examines the notion of ‘phoneme fluctuation’, used in the SIL tradition of documentation, highlighting a number of empirical and theoretical problems, and arguing for …

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Benjamín Molineaux
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Affective coronal alternations in Mapudungun: Sound symbolism, change and morpho-phonological structure

The paper examines a series of coronal consonantal alternations in Mapudungun. Palatalisations imply small size, tenderness, closeness and politeness (e.g.[naʐki] 'cat'→[ɲaʃki] …

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Benjamín Molineaux
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The Corpus of Historical Mapudungun: Morpho-phonological parsing and the history of a Native American language

A technical account of the construction and use of the CHM

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Benjamín Molineaux
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A grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: Variation across time

A technical account of diachronic aspects of the FITS corpus

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Benjamín Molineaux
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The dental-alveolar contrast in Mapudungun: Loss, preservation and extension

The historical roots of the dental-alveolar contrast in Mapudungun are surveyed, alongside the tendency for their merger under asymmetric contact conditions.

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Benjamín Molineaux
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El *Sermón en Lengua de Chile* en el Corpus Histórico del Mapudungun: De texto colonial a texto digital [The *Sermon in the language of Chile* in the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun: from colonial text to digital text]

Transcription, tagging and mining possibilities for Luys de Valdivia's (1606) *Sermon in the language of Chile* in the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun.

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Benjamín Molineaux
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Phonotactics, graphotactics and contrast: The history of Scots dental fricative spellings

A re-assessment of the history of ⟨þ⟩, ⟨ð⟩, ⟨y⟩ and ⟨th⟩ in Older Scots

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Benjamín Molineaux
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Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: Understanding the interchange of ⟨ch(t)⟩ and ⟨th(t)⟩ in Older Scots

An overview of the FITS Corpus 'Medusa' tool and its application to grapho-phonological research via a longstanding issue in the historical record of mediaeval Scots: the …

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Benjamín Molineaux
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Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots

Variation in the voicing of fricatives in the Older Scots period

Warren Maguire
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