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Perceptual Structure of Monophthongs and Diphthongs in English
Language and Speech, 1983This multidimensional scaling investigation seeks to determine the dimensions underlying the perception of diphthongs in American English and whether such dimensions are radically different from those found in studies utilizing monophthongal vowels. Dissimilarity data were obtained from subjects' paired comparison judgments of 15 English vowels [i e ε ...
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Old high German monophthongization
Lingua, 1989In this article, I propose a solution to the puzzling problem of Old High German monophthongization, where Germanic ∗ai becomes ē before r, h and w, and ∗au becomes ō before h and dentals. Instead of searching for a phonetic solution as others have done, I present a satisfying abstract solution in terms of the phonological process of contraction and ...
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American English monophthong tenseness
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaIn General American English, the point vowels of the F2 – F1 verus F1 quadrilateral, [i], [u], and [ɑ] are tense. More generally, Lindau noted the connection between acoustic peripherality and vowel tenseness [Lindau, M. (1975). “Vowel Features.” Working Papers, Phonetics Laboratory, Lund University, 11, p. 1]. In the case of [ae], it is the tensing of
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Contrastive Analysis of Bangla and English Monophthongs
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013Linguistics is the scientific study of a language, more precisely human language because it is the mankind who only uses language meaningfully. Linguistics has different fields. Phonetics is one of the fields where speech sound is analysed generally along with the sound production, transmission and reception.
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