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Detailing the impact of social variables on the production of the Catalan mid-vowel contrasts by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

Estudios de Fonética Experimental
The present study investigates variability in the production of Catalan vowels by Barcelona young, middle-aged, and older adults who speak the Central Catalan variety. The degree of exposure to and use of Central Catalan varies among speakers as half of
Zoi Kotsoni
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Proto-Berber Mid Vowel Harmony

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018
The Berber nominal prefix allomorphs a-/ta- and e-/te- have been shown to be phonetically conditioned (Van Putten 2016). This paper will examine other cases of the Berber vowel e where it shows interchange with the vowel a, and will try to show that these alternations must also be seen as phonetically conditioned allophones of each other, through a ...
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A Stratal Phonological Analysis of Stem-Level and Word-Level Effects in Old French Compensatory Vowel Lengthening upon Coda /s/ Deletion

Languages
The well-known deletion of coda sibilants in Old French (11th–14th centuries) induced a compensatory lengthening effect on the preceding vowel, generally described as applying uniformly where coda /s/ was lost.
Francisco Antonio Montaño
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Acoustic variability within and across German, French, and American English vowels: Phonetic context effects [PDF]

, 2007
Cross-language perception studies report influences of speech style and consonantal context on perceived similarity and discrimination of non-native vowels by inexperienced and experienced listeners.
Nishi, Kanae, Strange, Winifred, Weber, Andrea, Shafiro, Valeriy, Levy, Erika S., Hisagi, Miwako   +5 more
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An Acoustic Study of Romanian Stressed Vowels with Special Reference to Mid Central [ɨ] and [ə]

Languages
The present study is concerned with some aspects of the production of [ɨ] and [ə] in Romanian, i.e., their position within the vowel space, degree of acoustic variability and acoustic duration.
Daniel Recasens, Fernando Sánchez-Miret
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Perception of English vowels across regional accents by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
This study investigates how Catalan-Spanish bilinguals perceive and identify vowels produced in Southern British, Northern British and Australian English.
Gil Verbeke, Juli Cebrian, Ellen Simon
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Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian : a perceptual loss? [PDF]

, 2010
Vowel quantity is distinctive in Hungarian for all vowels. However, the quantity opposition in high vowels has become unstable in colloquial speech.
Mády, Katalin
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MID PRETONIC VOWELS IN THE SPEECH OF SOUTHEAST REGION: A GEO-SOCIOLINGUISTIC OVERVIEW

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2015
We aim to trace a geo-sociolinguistic overview of the behavior of pretonic mid vowels in the speech of the Southeast Region, based on variationist sociolinguistic studies carried out in communities of the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, São ...
Fabiane de Mello Vianna da ROCHA , Silvia Figueiredo BRANDÃO   +1 more
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17. Mid Front Vowels

Chapter 17 begins with a section entitled “Principles and Obstacles,” which addresses the challenges of identifying phonemes in multidialectal situations, each dialect possessing distinct phonemic systems. The chapter begins by explaining the important role of “bridge” or “transition” vowels, which permit the raising or lowering of vowels across ...
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Cross-linguistic Phonological Transfer:

Crossings
The perception and acquisition of non-native tense and lax vowel contrasts have been the subject of extensive research (Bustos et al., 2023; Chang, 2023; Fabra & Romero, 2012; Lai, 2010). Previous studies have highlighted various factors influencing the
Jahurul Islam, Md. Sayeed Anwar, Shahriar Mohammad Kamal   +2 more
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