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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]
, 2019 We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
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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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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, 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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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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Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/ [PDF]
, 2010 The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels.
Rojczyk, Arkadiusz
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Finding the Most Uniform Changes in Vowel Polygon Caused by Psychological Stress [PDF]
, 2015 Using vowel polygons, exactly their parameters, is chosen as the criterion for achievement of differences between normal state of speaker and relevant speech under real psychological stress.
Sigmund, M., Stanek, M.
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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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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Bilingualism and multilingualism are highly prevalent. Non-invasive brain imaging has been used to study the neural correlates of native and non-native speech and language production, mainly on the lexical and syntactic level.
Miriam Treutler +2 more
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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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