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Comparative study of the qualitative features of the Lithuanian and Latvian monophthongs

Baltistica, 2015
In the present article, a comparative study of the spectral characteristics and distinctive qualitative features of monophthongs of the contemporary Baltic Standard languages pronounced in isolation is described. On the one hand vowels pronounced in isolation do not represent a pronunciation in everyday speech, while on the other hand their production ...
Grigorjevs, Juris, Jaroslavienė, Jurgita   +1 more
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Exploring vowel errors produced in nonword repetition in children with speech and language disorders. [PDF]

Int J Lang Commun Disord
Abstract Background Accurate nonword repetition (NWR) is contingent on many underlying skills, including encoding, memory and motor planning and programming. Though vowel errors are frequently associated with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), several recent studies have found that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) produce high rates ...
Vuolo J, Gifford TL.
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Sounds of the future and past. [PDF]

Br J Psychol
Abstract We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total N = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and ...
Sidhu DM, Peetz J.
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Oral monophthong vowel qualities of the Jamee language in Aceh

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Jamee language is one of the languages spoken in Aceh Province, in the super-diverse country, Indonesia. Previous studies have noted inconsistencies in the number of oral monophthong vowels produced by the Jamee speakers.
Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf, Ika Apriani Fata, Sinta Karwinda   +2 more
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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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Higher-pitched voices are perceived as financially trustworthy. [PDF]

Br J Psychol
Abstract Previous research is mixed as to whether listeners perceive higher‐ or lower‐pitched voices as more financially trustworthy. These mixed results may be owing to variation in the degree of risk implied in the scenarios used to measure perceptions of financial trustworthiness. I tested whether the degree of risk in the type of trust game used to
O'Connor JJM.
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The Effectiveness of Unsupervised Subword Modeling With Autoregressive and Cross-Lingual Phone-Aware Networks

IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2021
This study addresses unsupervised subword modeling, i.e., learning acoustic feature representations that can distinguish between subword units of a language.
Siyuan Feng, Odette Scharenborg
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Analysis of phonetic/phonological perception of the English monophthongs at tertiary level [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017
The paper discusses phonological competences of students of the first and fourth year of the Department of English Language and Literature at Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica. Students ability to identify relevant elements of the English vowel
Dančetović Nikola N.
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Diphthongized Monophthongs of Acehnese Oral Vowels in Samatiga Dialect

Journal of Language and Literature, 2021
Diphthong has been reported as the character of old Acehnese, which is now eroded in some words of modern Acehnese. However, some dialects, such as Daya and Pidie, still retain certain diphthongs in certain Acehnese words.
Tanzir Masykar, Febri Nurrahmi, Abdullah Al Mulhim   +2 more
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Über Monophthongische Substitute baltischer resp. lettischer ­Diphthonge in südestnischen Lehnwörtern; pp. 21-27 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2015
The Estonian vanik ’wreath’, Livonian vāńka id. and Finnish vannikko, ­vannikka ’(bride’s) wreath’ has been considered either a Baltic or an older Latvian loanword sharing its root with the Lithuanian vainìkas ’Kranz, Krone, (bei ­Mà ...
Lembit Vaba
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