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A cross-linguistic corpus acoustic analysis of rhotics
Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaCross-linguistically, rhotics exhibits a wide range of pronunciation variation, especially word-finally. The languages compared in this study include Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Farsi, Russian, Romanian, Macedonian, Czech, Irish, and Mexican Spanish, which ...
Janalyn A. Miklas, Matthew C. Kelley
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017
Previous studies of Cajun French (CF) report a shift in pre-rhotic vowel quality (Conwell & Juilland 1963, Blainey 2015, Dubois & Noetzel 2005, Salmon 2007, Lyche, Meisenburg & Gess 2012). This is unsurprising, in that such behavior is reported for numerous Francophone varieties, but prior work on rhotics in CF has been largely ...
Katherine M. Blake, Kelly Berkson
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Previous studies of Cajun French (CF) report a shift in pre-rhotic vowel quality (Conwell & Juilland 1963, Blainey 2015, Dubois & Noetzel 2005, Salmon 2007, Lyche, Meisenburg & Gess 2012). This is unsurprising, in that such behavior is reported for numerous Francophone varieties, but prior work on rhotics in CF has been largely ...
Katherine M. Blake, Kelly Berkson
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World Englishes, 2015
ABSTRACTThis paper presents a study of the pronunciation of English by speakers from Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Eight non‐English major undergraduate students participated in three tasks: an informal interview, reading a text, and a dialectological‐style questionnaire.
PETER SUNDKVIST, MAN GAO
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ABSTRACTThis paper presents a study of the pronunciation of English by speakers from Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Eight non‐English major undergraduate students participated in three tasks: an informal interview, reading a text, and a dialectological‐style questionnaire.
PETER SUNDKVIST, MAN GAO
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The rhotics of the Salvador, Bahia variety of Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesBrazilian Portuguese has two rhotic phonemes: the alveolar flap /ɾ/ and another variable phoneme. This phoneme has been cited as velar, uvular, and glottal fricatives, as well as alveolar trills and approximants.
Trey Jagiella, J. Clements
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Do acoustics predict tongue shape in American English rhotics?
Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaAmerican English /ɹ/ is one of the most common and treatment-resistant speech deviations in children with residual speech sound disorder (RSSD; Flipsen, 2015) and has also been the focus of considerable basic science research on articulatory-acoustic ...
Amanda Eads +4 more
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English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2010
We might expect Brunei English to be non-rhotic, as the Englishes of both Singapore and Malaysia are non-rhotic and Brunei has strong ethnic, historical, economic and cultural ties with those two countries. The current study compares the R-colouring of read data from female undergraduates in Brunei and Singapore, and it finds that the Brunei data is ...
Salbrina Sharbawi, David Deterding
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We might expect Brunei English to be non-rhotic, as the Englishes of both Singapore and Malaysia are non-rhotic and Brunei has strong ethnic, historical, economic and cultural ties with those two countries. The current study compares the R-colouring of read data from female undergraduates in Brunei and Singapore, and it finds that the Brunei data is ...
Salbrina Sharbawi, David Deterding
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Acquisition of French Rhotics in Manitoba, Canada
Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech: Children growing up in the French-minority context across Canada can be exposed to many different French dialects. The varied exposure may influence the development of the production of the French rhotic in children with typical development (TD) and ...
Catrine Demers +2 more
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Lowered F2 observed in uvular rhotics involves a tongue root gesture: Evidence from Upper Sorbian.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020Upper Sorbian, an endangered West Slavic language spoken in Germany, is unusual among Slavic languages in having a uvular rhotic /ʀ/. This paper focuses on the gestural configuration and coarticulatory resistance of the uvular rhotic and explores the ...
Phil J. Howson, Alexei Kochetov
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Language Variation and Change, 2019
This paper examines variation in the use of rhotics in Santomean Portuguese. In Portuguese, the distribution of rhotics is determined by syllable structure (Bonet & Mascaró, 1997).
Marie-Eve Bouchard
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This paper examines variation in the use of rhotics in Santomean Portuguese. In Portuguese, the distribution of rhotics is determined by syllable structure (Bonet & Mascaró, 1997).
Marie-Eve Bouchard
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