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The value of Irish schwa: An acoustic analysis of epenthetic vowels
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017 This study was conducted in an effort to learn more about the phonology of the Irish language. The research is intended to be a phonetic analysis of one of the phonological processes characteristic to Celtic languages.
McCullough, Kerry
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The dune size distribution and scaling relations of barchan dune fields [PDF]
, 2008 Barchan dunes emerge as a collective phenomena involving the generation of thousands of them in so called barchan dune fields. By measuring the size and position of dunes in Moroccan barchan dune fields, we find that these dunes tend to distribute ...
Durán, Orencio +3 more
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VARIATIONS AND INSERTIONS OF SCHWA: EARLY TEENAGE L2 LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2019 This study examines variations and insertions of schwa observed in the speech of 200 early teenage pre-intermediate second-language learners of English. The respondents were final-year students of a junior high school located in an urban setting in Ghana,
John Tetteh Agor
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]
, 2014 This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie +66 more
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The behavior of secondary consonant clusters in Swiss French child language
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013 This paper aims to determine the behavior of secondary clusters in Swiss French child language and, in doing so, provide a first step towards the identification of the order of acquisition of primary and secondary clusters.
Helene N. Andreassen
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The Pre-Schwa Vowel Lengthening in Selkup as a Sound Law; 124-133 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 The formerly unknown sound law that determined the rise of long vowels in Common Selkup can be formulated as follows: Proto-Samoyed (PS) high-rise and middle-rise vowels in the first syllable followed by a syllable with a PS Schwa undergo lengthening ...
Eugene Helimski
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Over vlugge spraak en vluchtige sjwa’s De relatie tussen spreektempo en de duur van Nederlandse svarabhaktivocalen [PDF]
, 2020 This study investigates the relationship between speech tempo and the duration of epentheticschwa in Dutch. The speech materials consisted of the spontaneous speech of 160 teachers of Dutch: these speakers were equally distributed over four different ...
Gillis, S., Kloots, H., Verhoeven, J.
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Vowel reduction in word-final position by early and late Spanish-English bilinguals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Vowel reduction is a prominent feature of American English, as well as other stress-timed languages. As a phonological process, vowel reduction neutralizes multiple vowel quality contrasts in unstressed syllables.
Emily Byers, Mehmet Yavas
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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