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Hiatus resolution in Moroccan Judeo-Spanish

Isogloss
This article gives an Optimality Theory analysis of the resolution of vowel hiatus across word boundaries based on published descriptions of late 19th and early 20th century Moroccan Judeo-Spanish, also known as haketía.
Samuel Douglass, Travis G. Bradley
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MID VOWEL NEUTRALIZATION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2012
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Variation in the formant of ethno-regional varieties in Nigerian English vowels

Open Linguistics
Unlike previous studies on Nigerian English (NigE) that consistently report mid-point analysis to describe NigE vowels, this study employs spectral changes because it reveals inherent changes, which characterize vowel formants over time. Earlier research,
Amoniyan Oluwasegun
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Mid Vowel Alternations in Verbal Stems in Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003
This paper proposes an alternative analysis for mid vowel alternations in verbal stems in BP, treating them as vowel coalescence, where two input vowels unite into a single output vowel that shares features of its ancestor, in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993; McCarthy & Prince, 1995).
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An acoustic and statistical analysis of Spanish mid–vowel allophones

Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2004
En 1918 Navarro Tomás afirmó que había alófonos abiertos y cerrados de las vocales medias de castellano. Aunque los resultados de varios estudios subsiguientes están de acuerdo con la afirmación, otros están en desacuerdo. Las conclusiones de estos estudios son subjetivas porque no analizaron estadísticamente los datos acústicos.
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Unmasking the Bantu Orthographic Vowels

, 2017
Bantu vowel phonemes are reflexes of the Proto-Bantu seven-vowel system /*i *ɪ * ε‎ *a *ɔ *ʊ *u/. While lax high vowels were supplanted in some systems because of vowel mergers in the first two degrees /*i *ɪ/ and /*u *ʊ/, lax mid vowels / ε‎ ɔ/ are ...
Joash J. Gambarage
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A Feature Alignment Approach to Plural Realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish

Languages
Using an optimality theoretic analysis, this study offers a conception of the problem of plural realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish (EAS) where plural suffix /s/ was deleted diachronically that differs from other accounts that assign the EAS plural
Stuart Davis, Matthew Pollock
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Influence of the European Portuguese phonological system on the perception of close-mid and open-mid vowels

Glossa
This study’s purpose was to analyse the influence of neutralisation on the perception of European Portuguese (EP) close-mid and open-mid vowels, and the gradient between the /i/, /e/, /ε/ and /a/ phonological categories.
João Veloso, Luis M. T. Jesus, Maria Conceição Costa, Megumi Im   +3 more
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The Pronunciation of the Schwa

Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Occidentale
In Italian, the schwa has spread to encode gender beyond the binary, yet /ə/ is not part of the standard phonemic inventory. This study addresses the recurring unpronounceability argument by focusing on acoustic vowel distance.
Facchini, Igor, Galimberti, Valeria
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Oregon’s Mid-Coast Water Planning Partnership water action plan [2021]

The purpose of the Oregon Mid-Coast Water Action Plan is to provide a framework and pathway forward to address water supply and use challenges in the Mid-Coast region, and sustainably balance water needs for people and native fish and wildlife. This plan
Mid-Coast Water Planning Partnership
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