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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 431-455, December 2024.Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
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Philippine Englishes in the Sino‐Philippine Lannang context
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 588-606, December 2024.Abstract This article explores the relationship between Philippine English and the Lannangs, individuals with Filipino and Southern Chinese cultural heritage. It highlights the multifaceted nature of this English variety by discussing how it interacts with non‐English languages in contemporary Lannang communities located in Manila, Iloilo and Cebu ...
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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Adult L2 Japanese learners’ production and perception of Vietnamese monophthong vowels [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reports a study that investigated the role of prior native or first language (L1) phonological and phonetic learning on the integration of vowel quality features in the acquisition of second language (L2) vowels by examining adult L2 Japanese ...
Nguyễn, Anh-Thư T. +1 more
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The phonetic boundary between monophthongs and diphthongs in Suzhou Chinese
, 2008 The dialectologists have argued whether some vowel sounds in Suzhou Chinese were diphthongs or monophthongs for many years. However, there were no objective methods for judging whether a vowel sound was a monophthong or diphthong.
Feng, Ling
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2208-2216, November/December 2024.Abstract Background The dialect spoken by children influences diagnostic decision‐making regarding the identification and severity of speech sound disorder (SSD). Aims The primary objective was to review papers that examined the influence of dialect on the identification of SSD in Vietnamese‐speaking children. Methods & Procedures Five studies of mono‐
Ben Phạm, Sharynne McLeod
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Statistical Survey of Monophthong Formants in Mandarin for Students Being Trained as Broadcasters
, 2016 : To study the group characteristics of Mandarin monophthong formants, the monophthongs of 212 female students and 126 male students from the department of broadcasters were recorded. The monophthong formants were measured using LPC method.
Chen, Yudong +5 more
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Bengali and Dutch: A Phonological Contrastive Analysis of the front Monophthongs
Research in LanguageThis paper investigates the monophthongs of Bengali and Dutch, analyzing the similarities and differences in the phonetic characteristics between the two languages, particularly focusing on front monophthongs.
Mohammed Shahedul Haque +1 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 64-84, September 2024.Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of ...
Lauren Hall‐Lew
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