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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Using phonetic constraints in acoustic-to-articulatory inversion [PDF]

, 2005
The goal of this work is to recover articulatory information from the speech signal by acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. One of the main difficulties with inversion is that the problem is underdetermined and inversion methods generally offer no ...
Laprie, Yves, Potard, Blaise
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Pronunciation of English Vowels, 1400-1700 [PDF]

, 1918
Allen Mawer, R. E. Zachrisson
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Vowel–vowel trajectories and region modeling

Journal of Phonetics, 1991
Trajectories in the formant space of vowel–vowel transitions are analyzed. Results on natural speech are presented. The trajectories have been modeled, taking advantage of a new concept which quantizes the vocal tract area function into Distinctive Regions and Modes.
M. Mrayati, R. Carré
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Dipthongs [PDF]

, 1985
A vowel, by definition, is a sound produced by the vibrations of the vocal cords without the friction or stoppage which characterizes consonants. The alphabetical vowels are A, E, I, O, and U, comprising about 40 percent of the letters in all written ...
Brooke, Maxey
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Vowel Production in Mandarin Accented English and American English: Kinematic and Acoustic Data from the Marquette University Mandarin Accented English Corpus [PDF]

, 2013
Few electromagnetic articulography (EMA) datasets are publicly available, and none have focused systematically on non-native accented speech. We introduce a kinematic-acoustic database of speech from 40 (gender and dialect balanced) participants ...
Berry, Jeffrey J., Ji, An, Johnson, Michael T   +2 more
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Mother Tongue Influence and Global English: Creating “Neutral” Elites in Delhi's Business Processing Outsourcing Industry

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
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Fennell's Indo-European Vowel-System - Indo-European Vowel-System, by C. A. M. Fennell, D. Litt. 33 pp. [PDF]

, 1892
Helen Darbishire
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Airflow in stop-vowel sequences of German [PDF]

, 2009
This study reports on the results of an airflow experiment that measured the duration of airflow and the amount of air from release of a stop to the beginning of a following vowel in stop vowel-sequences of ...
Hamann, Silke, Velkov, Hristo
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