Recent research has identified characteristic differences between the phonetic structures of names and of ordinary nouns, with particularly distinctive patterns being exhibited by feminine personal names. No explanation has yet been found. This paper suggests that the solution lies not in the English sound system, as has previously been assumed, but in differences between the linguistic origins of the various types of material..
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%1 Hough2000
%A Hough, Carole
%D 2000
%J Journal of Linguistics
%K Fon{\'{e}}tica G{\'{e}}nero Ling{\"{u}}{\'{\i}}stica Nombres de persona
%T Towards an explanation of phonetic differentiation in masculine and feminine personal names
%U http://www.journals.cup.org/ows-bin/article?spii=S0022226799007975
%V 36
%X Recent research has identified characteristic differences between the phonetic structures of names and of ordinary nouns, with particularly distinctive patterns being exhibited by feminine personal names. No explanation has yet been found. This paper suggests that the solution lies not in the English sound system, as has previously been assumed, but in differences between the linguistic origins of the various types of material..
%Z Language: eng
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abstract = {Recent research has identified characteristic differences between the phonetic structures of names and of ordinary nouns, with particularly distinctive patterns being exhibited by feminine personal names. No explanation has yet been found. This paper suggests that the solution lies not in the English sound system, as has previously been assumed, but in differences between the linguistic origins of the various types of material..},
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title = {{Towards an explanation of phonetic differentiation in masculine and feminine personal names}},
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volume = 36,
year = 2000
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