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On Voiced Stops in Finnish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Finnishvoicingstopsconsonant inventoryThere is a common crosslinguistic claim about stop inventories, that if a language has a velar voiced stop, it also has coronal and a labial; that if a language has a voiced coronal stop, it also has a labial, etc ...

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Illustrations of the IPA: Lyonnais (Francoprovençal) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Francoprovençal (known locally as patois) is the glottonym used as a cover term for a highly fragmented Romance dialect-grouping. These varieties are spoken in south-eastern France, and neighbouring parts of Switzerland and Italy; diasporic communities ...
Bert   +19 more
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Comparing phonetic difficulties by EFL learners from Spain and Japan. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
XXII Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2017)After decades of improving language learning methods, English as a Foreign Language (hereafter EFL) still makes Spanish and Japanese ...
Juan-Checa, José-Javier
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Speech evaluation during maxillary mini‐dental implant overdenture treatment: A prospective study

open access: yesJournal of Oral Rehabilitation, Volume 46, Issue 12, Page 1151-1160, December 2019., 2019
Abstract Large proportions of patients are edentulous and wear removable dentures leading to reduced functional comfort and less oral health‐related quality of life. Satisfaction with the oral situation after implantation depends on the outcome in eating comfort, speech comfort and aesthetics.
Ester Fonteyne   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subphonemic and suballophonic consonant variation : the role of the phoneme inventory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Consonants exhibit more variation in their phonetic realization than is typically acknowledged, but that variation is linguistically constrained. Acoustic analysis of both read and spontaneous speech reveals that consonants are not necessarily realized ...
Lavoie, Lisa M.
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 19-38, March 2026.
Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
wiley   +1 more source

Dental Treatments under the General Anesthesia in a Child with Keratitis, Ichthyosis, and Deafness Syndrome

open access: yesCase Reports in Dentistry, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
KID syndrome is a rare genodermatosis characterized by keratitis, ichthyosis, and sensorineural deafness. Although the dermatological, ophthalmologic, and sensorineural defects are emphasized in the literature, oral and dental evaluations are so superficial.
Sera Sımsek Derelioglu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Arabic was traditionally described as lughat al-Ρād ‘the language of Ρād’ due to the perceived unusualness of the sound. From Sībawayhi’s description, early Arabic Ρād was clearly a lateral or lateralized emphatic.
Al-Azraqi, M, Watson, JCE
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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 210-222, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Second Language Vowel Production With Hand Gestures Encoding Visible Articulation: Evidence From Picture‐Naming and Paragraph‐Reading Tasks

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 884-916, December 2024.
Abstract This study investigates whether audiovisual phonetic training with hand gestures encoding visible or nonvisible articulation features has a differential impact on learning second language sounds. Ninety‐nine Catalan–Spanish bilingual students were trained to differentiate English /æ/ and /ʌ/, which differ in the visible lip aperture and ...
Xiaotong Xi, Peng Li, Pilar Prieto
wiley   +1 more source

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