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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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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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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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Production of English Monophthongs: A Preliminary Study [PDF]

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2022
Man Zhang, Suqiu Hong, Tianle Zou
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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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Problems using the traditional acoustic cues for the phonological interpretation of vowels

Baltistica, 2014
The need to add acoustic characteristics to description of the Latvian sounds traditionally described and phonologically classified only on the basis of their articulation has raised the question on relations between acoustic properties of sounds and ...
Juris Grigorjevs
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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 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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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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The “Magnet Effect” – A Powerful Source of L1 Dialect Interference in the Pronunciation of English as a Foreign Language

ELOPE, 2014
Wieden and Nemser (1991) carried out a study investigating the development of pronunciation of English as a foreign language in Austria. One of the main issues in this research was L1 dialect interference.
Klementina Jurančič Petek
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