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The origin of mid vowels in Siwi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2016 Recent documentation has established that the Siwi language of western Egypt, unlike most other Berber languages, has two phonemic mid vowels appearing not only in Arabic loanwords but also in inherited vocabulary: /e/ and /o/.
Lameen Souag, Marijn van Putten
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Mispronunciation and Substitution of Mid-high Front and Back Hausa Vowels by Yorùbá Native Speakers [PDF]
REiLA, 2021 The mid short vowels: /e/ and /o/ are among the vowels shared between Hausa and Yorùbá but differ in Hausa mid-high long, front and back vowels: /e:/ and /o:/. The phonemic differences in the two languages have caused learning difficulties among the Yorù
Sale Maikanti +5 more
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The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels
Glossa, 2017 This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de ...
Benjamin Storme
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Reconsidering the mid-vowel system of Parisian French:
IsoglossThe French mid vowel system exhibits a complex marginal phonological contrast. The distributions of three pairs of vowels (/e, ɛ/; /o, ɔ/; /ø, œ/) are neither completely contrastive nor allophonic, and their heights vary, leading to overlapping phonetic ...
Joshua Griffiths, Margaret Renwick
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The Phonology of Mid Vowels in Germanic Languages
Journal of Germanic LinguisticsIn phonological theory there are multiple ways to represent mid vowels. SPE conventions maintain that they are non-[high] and non-[low]. Conversely, frameworks like Element Theory argue that mid vowels are simultaneously [high] and [low]. This article examines eight processes (and groups of processes) within the Germanic language family, which strongly
Andrew Kostakis
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts
LanguagesAccounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Perception of European Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Ukrainian–Russian Bilinguals
LanguagesMid-vowel contrasts often present perceptual challenges for speakers of languages that lack these distinctions. However, bilingual speakers, who have access to two phonological systems and exhibit greater metalinguistic awareness, might not necessarily ...
Vita V. Kogan, Gabriela Tavares
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Vowels in Initial Syllables in Saaremaa [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The article provides an overview of vowel quality in the initial syllable of words having various degrees of quantity in the insular dialect of Estonian. The material consists of eight sub-dialects of Saaremaa.
Ellen Niit
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
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A multi-method approach to correlate identification in acoustic data: The case of Media Lengua
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 This study of Media Lengua examines production differences between mid and high vowels in order to identify the major correlates that distinguish these vowel types.
Jesse Stewart, Sky Onosson
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