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Pre-pausal devoicing and glottalisation in varieties of the south-western Arabian peninsula [PDF]
, 2007 A wide range of modern Arabic dialects exhibit devoicing in pre-pausal (utterance-final) position. These include Cairene [20], Gulf Arabic, San’ani [8], [18], Manaxah [19], Central Highland Yemeni dialects [1], Rijal Alma‘ (Asiri p.c.), Central Sudanese (
Asiri, Y, Watson, JCE
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Anglophonia, 2022 This phonetic study assesses the short-term efficiency of ecological training in glottal awareness for the reading of /h/-initial and vowel-initial words by French learners of L2 English.
Christelle Exare
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Patterns and timing of glottalisation [PDF]
Phonology, 2001 Through an investigation of glottalisation in several languages of North America, this article examines the role of perception in the grammatical distribution of segments. Specifically, we consider the hypothesis that perceptual factors on the timing of glottalisation in consonants determine the arrangement of such consonants phonologically.
Howe, Darin M. +1 more
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Using open quotient for the characterisation of vietnamese glottalised tones [PDF]
Interspeech 2005, 2005 Vietnamese is a tone language in which the tone is a complex bundle of pitch and voice quality characteristics. The present study is restricted to Falling tones (i.e. it does not cover tone C2, called nga in Vietnamese spelling, which has medial glottalisation and ends on relatively high pitch), and deals mainly with tone C1 (hoi).
Vu-Ngoc, Tuân +2 more
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Pre-aspiration and longitudinal voice quality trends in Received Pronunciation: The case of Queen Elizabeth II [PDF]
JASA Express LettersNo longitudinal studies have reported rates of pre-aspiration across the lifespan of an individual, and few have investigated changes in local breathiness and glottalisation vis-à-vis pre-aspiration, though they have been previously shown to feed and ...
Thomas Kettig, Míša Hejná
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Anglophonia, 2019 Creaky voice is a non-modal (non-neutral) speech feature occurring both at the segmental and suprasegmental levels of languages. It also performs paralinguistic, stylistic, sociolinguistic and extra-linguistic functions. It has been reported as prevalent
Claire Pillot-Loiseau +3 more
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham.
Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin
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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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Dialect acquisition of glottal variation in /t/: Barbadians in Ipswich [PDF]
, 2007 This article considers dialect contact and second-dialect acquisition by adult and child Barbadian English speakers converging towards an East Anglian variety of English.
Patrick, Peter L, Straw, Michelle
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Investigating variation in Arabic intonation : : the case for a multi-level corpus approach [PDF]
, 2014 This paper provides a first description of the intonational patterns of San‘aani Arabic (SA, the dialect of Arabic spoken in the capital of Yemen) and a comparison of these patterns with those observed in Cairene Arabic (CA), revealing differences ...
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