Browsing Research Output by Subject "/s/-fronting"
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Palatalisation of /s/ in Afrikaans
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2015)This article reports on the investigation of the acoustic characteristics of the Afrikaans voiceless alveolar fricative /s/$^2$. As yet, a palatal [$\int$] for /s/ has been reported only in a limited case, namely where /s/ ... -
The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English
(De Gruyter, 2017)This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional ...