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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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Long mid vowels in Attic-Ionic and Cretan

The Cambridge Classical Journal, 2006
§1. Common Greek inherited from proto-Indo-European a simple five vowel system as shown in (1), with one mid vowel on each of the front and back axes. Only the long vowel system is shown here; the short vowel system had the same structure.The inherited system was inherently stable: there was balance between the short and long vowel systems and between ...
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Mid Vowel Assimilation Across Mandarin Dialects

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2002
In Standard Mandarin, a mid vowel agrees in [back] and [round] features with adjacent glides. A mid vowel preceded by a front rounded glide, however, is only partially assimilated, resulting in a front unrounded [e] rather than the expected front rounded [o].
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Distribution of Mid Vowels and Relating Vowel Harmony in Zulu [PDF]

ICUWPL, 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-vowel alternations in the Brazilian Portuguese verb

Phonology, 1995
The underlying system of consonants and vowels in Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP), together with the lexical and word-level phonological rules and the interactions between them, has been studied in great detail (see e.g. Harris 1974; Lopez 1979; Redenbarger 1981; Quicoli 1990).
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An acoustic study of Italian unstressed mid-vowels

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1996
In Italian, the contrast between the two mid front vowels |eε| and between the two mid back vowels |o■| is neutralized in unstressed syllables, where the two pairs merge into the unstressed mid ‘‘archiphonemes’’ |EO|. In this study, an instrumental investigation of the quality of the unstressed mid-vowels is presented to see if neutralization is ...
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Mid vowel fronting in Ukrainian

Phonology, 2005
This article investigates the process of o-fronting in Ukrainian and claims that it should be analysed as an effect of PAL-e, a constraint mandating that the consonant and the vowel agree in backness. The operation of PAL-e is opaque, due to the interaction with a depalatalisation process applying before [ε].
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The forgotten mid vowels (advance online)

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.
Zariquiey, R., Blum, F. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2936-0275, Valenzuela, P.   +2 more
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THE PRODUCTION OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE MID VOWELS BY RUSSOPHONE MIGRANTS IN BRAZIL

2022
Pavel Skrelin
exaly  

On the Merger of Korean Mid Front Vowels: Phonetic and Phonological Evidence

Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 2015
Julien Eychenne
exaly