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    • Palatalisation of /s/ in Afrikaans 

      Wissing, Daniel Petrus; Pienaar, Wikus; Van Niekerk, Daniel Rudolph (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 

      Bekker, Ian; Levon, Erez (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 ...