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    Materials on Golin: grammar, texts and dictionary
    Evans, Nick ; Besold, Jutta ; STOAKES, HYWEL ; Lee, Alan ; LOUGHNANE, ROBYN ; ROSS, BELINDA ; Brown, Kate (The Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, 2005-04)
    Golin is a language spoken in the Simbu (Chimbu) region of Papua New Guinea. This publication consists of a selection of articles, texts and a dictionary. This was as part of the Linguistic Field Methods Subject presented by Prof. Nick Evans at The University of Melbourne, first semester 2003.This book is divided ito three parts, language analysis; a collection of texts and a small dictionary, The analysis offers insights into different aspects of the Golin language such as tonal phonology, verb morphology, and clause structure. The texts in the second part are short narratives where Kia (our language informant), recalls past experiences. The small dictionary contains about 600 entries.
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    A grammar and glossary of the Sherpa language
    KELLY, B ; Genetti, C (Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2004)
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    Development of Community in Computer Mediated Communication: A Social Network Analysis
    KELLY, B ; Halverson, ; Achard, M ; Kemmer, S (CSLI Publications, 2004)
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    A grammar of Semelai
    KRUSPE, N (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
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    Adjectives in Semelai
    KRUSPE, N ; DIXON, RMW ; AIKHENVALD, AY (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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    Relating Morphology to Syntax
    SADLER, LS ; NORDLINGER, R ; SPENCER, A ; SADLER, LS (CSLI Publications, 2004)
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    An EMA/EPG study of vowel-to-vowel articulation across velars in Southern British English
    Fletcher, J (Taylor & Francis, 2004-09-01)
    Recent studies have attested that the extent of transconsonantal vowel-to-vowel coarticulation is at least partly dependent on degree of prosodic accentuation, in languages like English. A further important factor is the mutual compatibility of consonant and vowel gestures associated with the segments in question. In this study two speakers of standard southern British English produced sequences of [symbols: see text] sequences where the identity of V was either /i/ or /a/, and nuclear accent placement was varied systematically. A combined technique of EPA and EMA was used, as well as spectrographic measures. Results indicate that there were only minimal transconsonantal coarticulatory effects between the two full vowels /i/ and /a/, but there was evidence of dissimilation of the flanking vowels, particularly in /'kaki/ and /'kika/ sequences, suggesting that prosodically strong vowels resist vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Initial schwa, however, was highly coarticulated with following /a/ and /i/, and the spatial extent of this coarticulatory effect was correlated with degree of accentuation, particularly in the case of a following /i/ vowel. The velar stops showed a high level of coarticulation with flanking /i/ vowels, supporting earlier claims by Fowler and Brancazio, that this consonant is 'less' resistant to coarticulatory pressures than others in English.
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