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Exploring vowel errors produced in nonword repetition in children with speech and language disorders [PDF]

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2896-2910, November/December 2024.
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 ...
Janet Vuolo, Taylor L. Gifford
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Bengali and Dutch: A Phonological Contrastive Analysis of the front Monophthongs [PDF]

Research in Language
This 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, Nashrah Sharfuddin   +1 more
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Vowel Harmony in the Kihnu Variety of ­Estonian: A Corpus Study [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2023
This paper investigates back/front vowel harmony in the Kihnu variety of Estonian. Data from the Estonian Dialect Corpus are analyzed to inform the description of harmony in this dialect, a phenomenon that has been understudied in the literature ...
Kaili Vesik
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The influence of pronunciation learning strategies on mastering English vowels

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The present paper focuses on the role of strategies in learning the pronunciation of the target language. First, an outline of various general classifications of language learning strategies is provided.
Katarzyna Rokoszewska
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Survey of Previous Research on Livonian Prosody; 23-28 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2007
Livonian prosody is unique among the Uralic languages in that it contrasts short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, prevocalic single and geminate consonants and word-final short and long consonants, word-final short and long consonants,
Tiit-Rein Viitso
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Vowel Phonemes in Hindi

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2018
An analysis of the present day Hindi, as spoken in the northern part of India, brings to light the fact that this language has at least twenty vowel phonemes, and not simply thirteen.
Brahma Dutta Sharma
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Malaysian English Monophthongs by Regional Malay Dialect Speakers: Convergence or Divergence? [PDF]

, 2016
This study investigates the possible influence of Malay regional dialects on Malaysian English monophthongs. It compares the production of Malay and English monophthongs by male and female speakers of Standard Malay, Terengganu Malay and Kelantan Malay ...
Sulong, Suhaila
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An instrumental analysis of English vowels produced by Omanis

Journal of Modern Languages, 2017
This article examines the pronunciation of English monophthongs by ten male Omani speakers. Vowel quality was measured according to the frequencies of the first (F1) and second formants (F2), and vowel duration was measured to investigate length ...
Ali Hubais, Stefanie Pillai
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This 'Pull’s as Hot as 'Hal'

Lifespans and Styles, 2021
This paper investigates mergers of the DRESS-TRAP and FOOT-GOOSE vowels in pre-lateral position for speakers of diverse varieties of English in Melbourne, Australia.
Henry Leslie-O’Neill
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An Analysis of the Pronouncing of English Monophthongs by Kurdish EFL University Students (Northern Kurmanji Speakers)

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2019
This study investigated the production of English monophthongs by Kurdish EFL learners at university level. Twenty native speakers of Northern Kurmanci (i.e.
Sabah S. Haji, Fakhir O. Mohammed
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