Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic: Neurolinguistic Evidence from a Comparative Study on Standard German, Zurich German, and Fering (North Frisian)
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542719000199
Abstract: To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic… read more here.
Keywords: animacy; german fering; case; fering north ... See more keywords
Rhythmic characteristics in aging: A study on Zurich German
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DOI: 10.1121/1.4988256
Abstract: Age-related changes in speech production influence both speech segmental and suprasegmental characteristics. Previous research focussed on changes in voice quality, vowel formant patterns, f0 and speech rate due to aging but only little attention has… read more here.
Keywords: zurich german; study; intensity; variability ... See more keywords