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This dissertation focuses on neo-Nazi and violent jihadi propaganda and its role in defining social boundaries. Frame analysis was used to gain a deeper understanding of how neo-Nazis and violent jihadis construct propaganda to neutralize objections and promote drift. Specifical…

Debuccalization is a weakening phenomenon whereby various consonants reduce to laryngeals. Examples include Spanish s-aspiration (s becomes h word-finally) and English t-glottalization (t becomes glottal stop syllable-finally). Previous analyses of debuccalization view it as a l…

This study investigates the typology of patterns of positional neutralization, a term referring to systems in which, from a given set of oppositions, one structural position licenses a wider array of contrasts than another. Patterns of positional neutralization of vowel contrast…

This research investigates the phonetic realization of the phonological process of final devoicing in Turkish. Contrary to the traditional assumption that final devoicing is a neutralizing process, several previous phonetic studies have claimed that a distinction is maintained i…

Most of the previous scholarly works have primarily focused on the examination of Techniques of Neutralization in the U.S. As well as the lack of studies examining Techniques of Neutralization in other countries, the literature shows that none of the previous researches tested t…