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Perceptual factors license vocalic contrasts in Chamorro

Glossa, 2022
In Chamorro, a typically neutralized contrast between mid and high vowels is preserved before intervocalic laryngeals. This preservation of contrast is shown to be an instance of patterned exceptionality.
Richard Lee Bibbs
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Spectral and temporal characteristics of Czech vowels in spontaneous speech

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2019
This paper provides a comprehensive account of spectral and durational characteristics of Czech monophthongal vowels. It improves on the existing literature (that almost exclusively focused on read speech) in that it examines vowels in spontaneous speech
Nikola Paillereau, Kateřina Chládková
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Vowel Raising in Nkpor Dialect: A Pattern of Sound Change

Linguistik Online, 2014
This paper explores a pattern of phonological change known as vowel raising in the Nkpor dialect of the Igbo language. Using a corpus of conversational Nkpor speech collected from the respondents through tape-recording, we presented data from an ...
Evelyn Ezinwanne Mbah, Chukwuma Onyebuchi Okeke   +1 more
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Receptive Meaning‐Recall Knowledge of Derivational Morphology Among EFL Learners: A Case for L1‐Population‐Specific Assessment

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody, Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Paweł Mandera, Stuart McLean   +5 more
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Prominence Augmentation via Nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019
This article aims to demonstrate that dialectal and idiolectal variants of Brazilian Portuguese that exhibit rhotic metathesis (e.g. vidro > vrido ‘glass’), spontaneous nasalization of high vowels (as in diachronic hibernum > inverno ‘winter’ and non ...
Andrew Nevins, Paula Pinheiro Costa
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
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Uncovering the Most Important Factors for Predicting Sexual Desire Using Explainable Machine Learning

, 2021
Background: Low sexual desire is the most common sexual problem reported with 34% of women and 15% of men reporting lack of desire for at least 3 months in a 12-month period.
Mark, Kristen P., Vowels, Matthew J., Vowels, Laura M., Vowels, Laura; id_orcid   +3 more
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