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Cognate Recognition across Dialects

  • Joan Neuburger Savitt
Published/Copyright: November 13, 2009

Abstract

Synchronic cognates are subject to recognition failures across dialects, if processing through different determining features leads to phonemic misclassification. But phonemes common to all dialects can also cause recognition failures if they differ in function. These findings support a theoretical distinction between phone, phoneme, and morpho phone, the last being an essential unit for the cognate reconstruction necessary for error-free processing of unfamiliar dialects.


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Published Online: 2009-11-13
Published in Print: 1975-07-01

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