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Phonology of Adur Niesu in Liangshan, Sichuan
Languages, 2023 This study describes the segmental and suprasegmental phonology of Adur Niesu, a Loloish (or Ngwi) language spoken mainly in Liangshan, Sichuan, southwest China. Phonemically, there are 41 consonants, 10 monophthongs and 1 diphthong in Adur Niesu.
Hongdi Ding
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Tone and word length across languages
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of this paper is to show evidence of a statistical dependency of the presence of tones on word length. Other work has made it clear that there is a strong inverse correlation between population size and word length.
Søren Wichmann
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Valeurs de gris/valeur du gris
Focales, 2022 Something of a blind spot in the aesthetics of modern "black & white" photography, grey tones nevertheless formed the standard reference point and the dominant tone up to the middle of the 20th century.
Dominique Versavel
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Hypotheses concerning the phonetic and functional origins of tone displacement in Zulu
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 High tones in Zulu are displaced rightward from their vowel of origin in the context of preceding "depressor" consonants, a segment type traditionally considered to possess breathy phonation.
Daniel Silverman
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African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023 The paper is about the impact of prosodic features, more especially tone marking, in extracting the meaning in Setswana readings, because of its contribution to meaning in Setswana.
Violet Pule, Kgomotso Theledi
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Njerep a postcard from the edge
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 Kunama has been reported by different scholars as having two or three tones, downstep (or not), contrastive length of both consonants and vowels, and lexical stress.
Bruce Connell, David Zeitlyn
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Optimising Data Utilisation in Lexicography: The Case of the Khoekhoegowab Dictionary
Lexikos, 2012 Despite of rapid progress in Southern Africa in the direction of multifunctionality of lexical databases through the advent of generic lexicographic software, a considerable number of lexicographic projects — especially in Khoe and Saan languages — still
Wilfrid Heinrich Gerhard Haacke
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Biology, 2023 Harmonic complex tones are easier to detect in noise than inharmonic complex tones, providing a potential perceptual advantage in complex auditory environments.
Neha Rajappa +2 more
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Perceptual simultaneity range for two dichotically presented pure tones with frequency separation below 0.5 Barka) [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2023 The perceptual simultaneity range for two diotically presented tones increases with decreasing frequency separation of the two tones from approximately 0.5 Bark.
Satoshi Okazaki +2 more
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Adult Learning of Novel Words in a Non-native Language: Consonants, Vowels, and Tones
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 While words are distinguished primarily by consonants and vowels in many languages, tones are also used in the majority of the world's languages to cue lexical contrasts. However, studies on novel word learning have largely concentrated on consonants and
Silvana Poltrock +8 more
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