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On The Mergers Of Latin Close‐Mid Vowels
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2018AbstractIn this article, we examine the details and dating of the mergers of Latinĭ,ēintoẹandŭ,ōintoọ. While these mergers have long since been recognised as a matter of historical fact within the broader development of Latin into Romance, their micro‐level mechanics present several problems.
Ville Leppänen, Tommi Alho
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The Status of Unstressed Lax-Mid Vowels in Northern Dialect of Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
Revista Linguíʃtica, 2018 This study experimentally analyses the claim that northern dialects of Brazilian Portuguese show a pattern of reduction via laxing. With an experiment of sentence reading that resulted in a corpus of 4800 tokens, the analysis showed that it is possible ...
Santana, Arthur, Arthur Santana
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Mid-vowels and vowel harmony in Civili
South African Journal of African Languages, 2006This article highlights the phenomenon of vowel harmony in Civili. The distinctive features of vowels are determined in order to analyze the vowel harmony system, and later to explain the distinction between respective problematic vowels in the vowel system.
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Variation in perception and production of mid front vowels in the U.S. Southern Vowel Shift
Journal of Phonetics, 2012Abstract Looking at speech perception from a sociolinguistic perspective, the paper first explores how speakers from three different regions in the U.S. perform on a vowel identification task for a continuum between /e/ and /ɛ/. Following the general analysis of cross-regional perception, we turn our focus to a subsample of Southern participants who ...
Tyler Kendall, Valerie Fridland
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Diachronica
Abstract 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.
Roberto Zariquiey +2 more
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Abstract 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.
Roberto Zariquiey +2 more
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Mid vowel assimilation in siSwati
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2015Previous analyses of the behaviour of siSwati mid vowels show conflicting results. According to Ziervogel and Mabuza, and Taljaard and Snyman, siSwati mid vowels are raised to close mid [e, o] when preceding the high vowels [i, u] (e.g. [likʰeʃi] ‘lift’ (n.), [inɮovu] ‘elephant’) but remain open mid [ɛ, ɔ] before [-high] vowels (e.g. [liʦemba] ‘hope n.
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2018
Contemporary Galician presents a phonemic distinction between open ([-ATR]) and close ([+ATR) mid vowels: /ɛ, ɔ/ vs. /e, o/, respectively, which holds under primary stress. However, in a number of phonologically and/or morphologically defined contexts the [ATR] value of mid vowels, both stressed and unstressed, is predictable.
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Contemporary Galician presents a phonemic distinction between open ([-ATR]) and close ([+ATR) mid vowels: /ɛ, ɔ/ vs. /e, o/, respectively, which holds under primary stress. However, in a number of phonologically and/or morphologically defined contexts the [ATR] value of mid vowels, both stressed and unstressed, is predictable.
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The Mid Vowels of Maga Rukai and Their Implications
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2003This study investigates the formation of mid vowels in the Maga dialect of Rukai, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. In contrast to the diachronic account presented in Li (1977), which assumes, based on cognate comparison among Rukai dialects, that Maga mid vowels derive historically from Proto Rukai, the current work draws evidence from ...
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On Comanche’s Central Mid Vowel
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2011Comanche has six vowel qualities /i, e, a, o, u, ɨ/ (plus a length distinction), and while the literature agrees almost completely on /i, e, a, o, u/, the last vowel /ɨ/ has been problematic—described as central in some papers, back in others, and compared to both round and spread vowels of English.
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Mid Vowels and Schwa in Eastern Catalan
2006For 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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