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Vowel Vibrations and Vowel Production [PDF]
Nature, 1938 PROF. E. W. SCRIPTURE, in a letter published in NATURE of October 1, suggests that the profiles of the various vowel sounds—of which he gives examples—indicate that these sounds “cannot have been produced by resonance”.
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Many studies have explored the role of consonant, vowel, and tone in Chinese word identification or sentence comprehension. However, few studies have explored their roles and neural basis during Chinese word production, especially when involving neural ...
Jianan Yu, Yun Zou, Yan Wu
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Speech perception patterns are strongly influenced by one's native phonology. It is generally accepted that native English listeners rely primarily on spectral cues when perceiving vowels, making limited use of duration cues because English lacks ...
Kakeru Yazawa +2 more
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Asymmetric Influence of Vocalic Context on Mandarin Sibilants: Evidence From ERP Studies
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 In the present study, we examine the interactive effect of vowels on Mandarin fricative sibilants using a passive oddball paradigm to determine whether the HEIGHT features of vowels can spread on the surface and influence preceding consonants with ...
Yaxuan Meng +5 more
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The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The
Christopher Ehret
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Objectives: Mandarin-speaking users of cochlear implants (CI) perform poorer than their English counterpart. This may be because present CI speech coding schemes are largely based on English.
Zhong Zheng +16 more
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Aspects of Northern Mao Phonology
Linguistic Discovery, 2009 In general terms, the phonology of Omotic languages has received little attention. This paper presents core phonological properties of on Omotic language, Norther Mao.
Michael Ahland
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Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Swahili [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1983 Acoustic data from Swahili (a Bantu language with a five-vowel system) reveal interesting differences in the extent and direction of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation as compared with other languages. Utterances were VpV disyllables, including all combinations of the five vowels with stress on the first vowel, recorded by a native speaker of Swahili.
Sharon Y. Manuel, Rena A. Krakow
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On Rimbaud’s "Vowels," Again: Vowels or Colors?
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY, 2019 Arthur Rimbaud’s sonnet Vowels presents a poetic vision based ostensibly on a quasi-psychedelic or synesthetic experience. It has inspired writers, critics, painters, and singers for over a century mainly because of its often obscure form and content. From the first verse of the text, for instance, the author juxtaposes each of the normal five French ...
Ginsburgh, Victor, Metzidakis, Stamos
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Tsuur and khumei in the sources of oral culture
Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2021 There are many sources of Mongolian music in Mongolian and Chinese oral and written sources, including the Tsuur. ” Echoes cannot be imagined without the organ of speech, and this is the main feature of their color imitation. This is because the evidence
L. Kherlen
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