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Voiced and Voiceless Alveolar Stops of Kermani Accent in stressed and unstressed syllables
This study aims to compare the voiced and voiceless alveolar stops of Kermani accent in stressed and unstressed syllables. Ten subjects with Kermani accent were asked to repeat 2 words and their plurals for three times. These words are minimal pairs and are different in the first phoneme.
Anis Masoumi, Vahideh Abolhasanizadeh
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG U IN ACCENTED SYLLABLES IN MODERN ENGLISH. [PDF]
Edwin W. Bowen
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Fundamental frequency and perceived prominence of accented syllables [PDF]
In natural speech, accented words may differ as to the degree of perceived prominence. At the acoustic level, two aspects of fundamental frequency (F0) variation may be responsible for the perceived prominence differences: the magnitude of F0 changes and the relative frequencies of F0 maxima.
J. Terken, R. Collier
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Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French
Main prominence is conventionally described as being assigned to the final syllable of phrases in French, but previous quantitative and qualitative work has shown that this is not always the case.
Heather Goad, Jeffrey Lamontagne
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L’accentuation en Haute-Cornouaille et en Bas-Vannetais
There is no need to explain here what is meant by the term accent when speaking Breton. We know that it is generally an energetic accent, more or less strong depending on the region, and whose function is essentially demarcatory.
Jean-Yves Plourin
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All's well that ends well [PDF]
A few years ago, Jasanoff adopted the central tenet of my accentological theory, viz. that the Balto-Slavic acute was a stød or glottal stop, not a rising tone (cf. Kortlandt 1975, 1977, 2004, Jasanoff 2004a).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation
In the central and western Basque-speaking regions there are two main accentual types: In the Northern Bizkaian area we find a pitch-accent system with demarcative phrase-initial rises and uniformly falling (H*L) accents, on the last syllable of the ...
Gorka Elordieta, José Ignacio Hualde
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Accent classes in South Kyengsang Korean: Lexical drift, novel words and loanwords [PDF]
This paper examines changes in the accent class affiliation of c. 1900 words from Middle Korean into the modern South Kyengsang dialect. The data present the profile of a canonical analogical change: words are attracted to larger lexical classes and ...
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Žodžio galo ir priegaidžių fonetinė evoliucija šiaurės žemaičių tarmėje
PHONETIC EVOLUTION OF WORD END AND SYLLABLE ACCENTS IN THE NORTHERN ŽEMAITIAN DIALECT Summary In this investigation an attempt is made to test if the accent, which is placed in the penultimate syllable, in the Northern Žemaitian dialect has any ...
Juozas Pabrėža
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