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Gender and /ai/ monophthongization in African American English
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2011 Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp.
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Acoustic measurements and intelligibility of English vowels produced by Thai speakers
Studies in English Language and EducationEffective English communication across different languages and cultures has become increasingly important in a globalised world. To gain a deeper understanding of the segmental features of Thai speakers of English, this study aims to investigate the ...
Kamonnate Iadkert +2 more
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British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 2, Page 316-335, May 2025.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 ...
David M. Sidhu, Johanna Peetz
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 719-728, May 2025.ABSTRACT Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) frequently experience difficulties in articulating English rising diphthongs, thereby hindering their speech efficacy in communication. This research employed an empirical approach to examine the accuracy rate exhibited by Chinese EFL learners while producing five English rising ...
PAN Pan, WU Xiaojing, WANG Jiaying
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Monophthongs of PakE: An acoustic investigation
İlköğretim Online, 2023 Pakistan falls into the outer-circle countries where English is used as second language. The indigenization process has caused much variation in spoken as well as written English. It is observed that a new variety of non-native Englishes is in the making, i.e. Pakistani English (PakE).
Dr Ijaz Asghar +4 more
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Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT The classical view is that perceptual attunement to the native language, which emerges by 6–10 months, developmentally precedes phonological feature abstraction abilities. That assumption is challenged by findings from adults adopted into a new language environment at 3–5 months that imply they had already formed phonological feature ...
Eylem Altuntas +4 more
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PRACTICE: MONOPHTHONGS, DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS
This article provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing the three main types of vowel sounds in English: monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs. It breaks down each category, explaining how each sound functions and offering practical exercises to help learners improve their pronunciation.
Pardayeva Mashhura, Teshaboyeva Nafisa
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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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An acoustic and articulatory description of the Romanian vocalic system [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018 This paper presents an acoustic and articulatory description of the seven standard Romanian vowels /i, ɨ, u, e, ə, o, a/. By revisiting previous instrumental studies (Avram 1963, Şuteu 1963, Teodorescu 1985, Renwick 2012), we offer a new interpretation ...
Oana Niculescu
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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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