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The origin of mid vowels in Siwi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2016 Recent documentation has established that the Siwi language of western Egypt, unlike most other Berber languages, has two phonemic mid vowels appearing not only in Arabic loanwords but also in inherited vocabulary: /e/ and /o/.
Lameen Souag, Marijn van Putten
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Perception of European Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Ukrainian–Russian Bilinguals
LanguagesMid-vowel contrasts often present perceptual challenges for speakers of languages that lack these distinctions. However, bilingual speakers, who have access to two phonological systems and exhibit greater metalinguistic awareness, might not necessarily ...
Gabriela Tavares, Vita V Kogan
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The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels
Glossa, 2017 This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de ...
Benjamin Storme
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Reconsidering the mid-vowel system of Parisian French:
IsoglossThe French mid vowel system exhibits a complex marginal phonological contrast. The distributions of three pairs of vowels (/e, ɛ/; /o, ɔ/; /ø, œ/) are neither completely contrastive nor allophonic, and their heights vary, leading to overlapping phonetic ...
Joshua Griffiths, Margaret Renwick
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Regression, Surface Constraints And The Acquisition Of Mid Vowels
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1979 Few studies in the phonological development of child speech have focused on the acquisition of vowels. The present paper will deal with the development of the mid vowel categories of one English speaking child. The realization rules which account for the
University of Kansas Department of Linguistics editors
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
LanguagesAccounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Mid vowels at the crossroads between standard and regional Italian
Sociolinguistica, 2023 Abstract The variety of Italian spoken in Bolzano (South Tyrol) represents a singular case in Italy, because it is not the result of a long-term contact between standard and Italo-Romance dialects but rather the outcome of a process of levelling and koineization.
Daniela Mereu
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The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid vowels before /l/
Laboratory Phonology, 2012 AbstractThis paper addresses the claim that Dutch /l/ triggers laxing of preceding tense mid vowels (/e ø o/), and that this leads to a phonetic length contrast between tense and lax vowels, e.g ...
Koen Sebregts, Bert Botma
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An Acoustic Study of Romanian Stressed Vowels with Special Reference to Mid Central [ɨ] and [ə]
LanguagesThe present study is concerned with some aspects of the production of [ɨ] and [ə] in Romanian, i.e., their position within the vowel space, degree of acoustic variability and acoustic duration.
Daniel Recasens +1 more
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Vowels in Initial Syllables in Saaremaa [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The article provides an overview of vowel quality in the initial syllable of words having various degrees of quantity in the insular dialect of Estonian. The material consists of eight sub-dialects of Saaremaa.
Ellen Niit
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