Western Papers in Linguistics

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An online Journal in Linguistics of the University of Western Ontario. Western Papers in Linguistics / Cahiers linguistiques de Western publishes papers on Language which were originally presented at our annual WISSLR (Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research) as well as Master's research papers. Western Papers in Linguistics publishes papers in linguistics, broadly construed, including fields as wide-ranging as anthropology, education, psychology, journalism, and neuroscience

Articles in this Journal

Classification Vectors as a Tool for Modelling Human Speech Perception

Humans perceive speech through the lens of their native phonemic categories, which fundamentally shape both the identification and discrimination of speech sounds. This connection between how we identify and discriminate phonemes is widely...

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An Optimal(ity) Approach To /v/: A Phonetic and Phonological Investigation

This paper investigates the positional and environmental effects of frication as measured by harmonicity and spectral centroid on the segment /v/ in Russian. /v/, unlike other obstruents in Russian, fails to trigger regressive voicing assimilation, w...