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A Survey of Phonological Mid Vowel Intuitions in Central Catalan

Language and Speech, 2018
Catalan, like other Romance languages, has two pairs of phonemic mid vowels (/be/ “well” vs. /bɛ/ “lamb”; /os/ “bear” vs. /ɔs/ “bone”). However, these contrasts do not function like others in the language: they are partially phonologically conditioned, and evidence shows that words may be pronounced with different mid vowels by speakers of the same ...
Renwick, M, Nadeu, M
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A data-driven assessment of harmony in Quebec French [e] and [ε] [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
This study is concerned with the aperture of the mid vowel /E/ in nonfinal syllables in Quebec French. The hypothesis tested is that in underived disyllabic words, the aperture of /E/ would be determined via harmony with the following vowel.
Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Michele Gubian
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Hungarian neutral vowels [PDF]

, 2013
In Hungarian, stems containing only front unrounded (neutral) vowels fall into two groups: one group taking front suffixes, the other taking back suffixes in vowel harmony. The distinction is traditionally thought of as purely lexical.
Szeredi, Dániel, Blaho, Sylvia
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Formant Transitions of Turkish Vowels [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2022
Acoustic correlates of consonantal place of articulation are numerous and varied. Burst information, onset spectra, and formant transition motion have all been implicated as the significant cues for consonant place of articulation within each labial ...
Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi
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Duration Affects Vowel Perception in Estonian and Finnish; pp. 161-177 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2009
Identification of vowels in quantity languages is usually considered to be independent of vowel duration since duration is used to realise the quantity oppositions and thus supposed to not be available as a cue for other ­features.
Einar Meister, Stefan Werner
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Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento) in Soprano Voices

Music & Science, 2021
Singers convey meaning via both text and music. As sopranos balance tone quality and diction, vowel intelligibility is often compromised at high pitches.
May Pik Yu Chan, Youngah Do
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Uma breve incursão pela fala culta recifense: vogais médias pretônicas à luz da sociolinguística

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: Neste trabalho, analisa-se a variação das vogais médias pretônicas na fala culta de Recife com base nos dados do Projeto NURC. Adotam-se os pressupostos de análise da teoria da variação laboviana, visando à depreensão dos contextos estruturais e ...
Márcia Cristina de Brito Rumeu
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Bondu-so vowel harmony: A descriptive analysis with theoretical implications

Studies in African Linguistics, 2012
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the [ATR] vowel harmony system of Bondu-so (Dogon, Mali), a previously undocumented language. Data come from fieldwork and have not yet been published.
Abie Hantgan, Stuart Davis
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Perception of height and categorization of Brazilian Portuguese front vowels

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2016
Cross-linguistic typological observations and theoretical models in phonology suggest that certain speech sound distinctions are more complex then others.
Daniel Márcio Rodrigues SILVA, Rui ROTHE-NEVES   +1 more
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A simetria no sistema vocálico do português brasileiro [PDF]

Linguística, 2010
The phonological system of Brazilian Portuguese has two rules of neutralization in favor of high vowels and not three, as it has been postulated. The asymmetrical subsystem of four pos- tonic vowels in non-final position is only an effect of frequency ...
Leda Bisol
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