Revis(it)ing French palatalization

Contrast Dispersion and Russian Palatalization

Her mouth will be rent to the ears by the fantastic, impossible sound " Y " .

Palatalization and Umlaut in Korean

Substantive Bias and Velar Palatalization

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance functions as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are provided highly impoverished evide...

FS l 99 - 301 Revisiting the French Model Coordination and restructuring in French industry in the 1980 s

participants in the workshop where this chapter was first presented and workshops at GATE-CNRS (Lyon) and LEST-CNRS (Aix-en-Provence) for their comments on earlier versions. If, despite all this help, mistakes remain, they are entirely my responsibility. Abstract According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds:...

The Emergence of Contrastive Palatalization in Russian

The well known contrast in Russian between palatalized and non-palatalized consonants originated roughly one thousand years ago. At that time consonants were allophonically palatalized before front vowels, as in danjZ 'tribute'. When the 'jer' (high, lax) vowels disappeared in certain positions, the palatalization formerly triggered by the front jer remained, leading to a palatalization contras...