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The Status of Unstressed Lax-Mid Vowels in Northern Dialect of Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Linguíʃtica, 2018
This study experimentally analyses the claim that northern dialects of Brazilian Portuguese show a pattern of reduction via laxing. With an experiment of sentence reading that resulted in a corpus of 4800 tokens, the analysis showed that it is possible ...
Santana, Arthur, Arthur Santana
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Mid vowel assimilation in siSwati

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2015
Previous analyses of the behaviour of siSwati mid vowels show conflicting results. According to Ziervogel and Mabuza, and  Taljaard and Snyman, siSwati mid vowels are raised to close mid [e, o] when preceding the high vowels [i, u] (e.g. [likʰeʃi] ‘lift’ (n.), [inɮovu] ‘elephant’) but remain open mid [ɛ, ɔ] before [-high] vowels (e.g. [liʦemba] ‘hope n.
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The forgotten mid vowels

Diachronica
Abstract This study re-examines the phonological inventory of Proto-Pano, challenging the prevailing view that it had only four oral vowels. Through a comparative analysis of 23 contemporary Pano languages/varieties, we reconstruct a Proto-Pano system with two additional mid vowels, proposing a six-vowel inventory.
Roberto Zariquiey   +2 more
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The Mid Vowels of Maga Rukai and Their Implications

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2003
This study investigates the formation of mid vowels in the Maga dialect of Rukai, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. In contrast to the diachronic account presented in Li (1977), which assumes, based on cognate comparison among Rukai dialects, that Maga mid vowels derive historically from Proto Rukai, the current work draws evidence from ...
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Galician mid-vowel reduction

2018
Contemporary Galician presents a phonemic distinction between open ([-ATR]) and close ([+ATR) mid vowels: /ɛ, ɔ/ vs. /e, o/, respectively, which holds under primary stress. However, in a number of phonologically and/or morphologically defined contexts the [ATR] value of mid vowels, both stressed and unstressed, is predictable.
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Lip posture of high and high-mid vowels in Hnaring Lutuv

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023
Lutuv is an under-documented South Central Tibeto-Burman language which is reported to contain six high monophthongs /i, y, ɨ, ʉ, Ɯ, u/ and four diphthongal vowels with high onsets /ie̯, yə̯, uɔ̯, Ɯə̯/ (Bohnert etal., 2022). No articulatory work on Lutuv exists to date, but impressionistic observations suggest that while the contrast between /i, y/ and
Amanda Bohnert, Kelly H. Berkson
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Mid-vowels and vowel harmony in Civili

South African Journal of African Languages, 2006
This article highlights the phenomenon of vowel harmony in Civili. The distinctive features of vowels are determined in order to analyze the vowel harmony system, and later to explain the distinction between respective problematic vowels in the vowel system.
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On Comanche’s Central Mid Vowel

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2011
Comanche has six vowel qualities /i, e, a, o, u, ɨ/ (plus a length distinction), and while the literature agrees almost completely on /i, e, a, o, u/, the last vowel /ɨ/ has been problematic—described as central in some papers, back in others, and compared to both round and spread vowels of English.
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Distribution of Mid Vowels and Relating Vowel Harmony in Zulu [PDF]

open access: yesICUWPL, 2017
This paper focuses on the distribution of mid vowels in Zulu and how the language system treats them. In this language, mid-low vowels such as [ɛ] and [ɔ] are raised to mid-high position as [e] and [o], when directly followed by a syllable with a high ...
Tabuse, Ryotaku, 5844
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Mid Vowels and Schwa in Eastern Catalan

2006
For some speakers of urban (Barcelona) Catalan, the height distinction between mid vowels is disappearing and schwa is lowering to something close to a low central vowel (Recasens 1991). This paper provides quantitative acoustic data to illustrate i) that these changes are present in young (college age) speakers of urban Catalan, and ii) that these ...
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