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Functional MRI of Native and Non-native Speech Sound Production in Sequential German-English Bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers 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 Vibrations and Vowel Production [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 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”.
openaire   +2 more sources

Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This case study reports on an acoustic investigation of the motor speech characteristics of a set of young adult male monozygotic (MZ) twins and compares them to those of an age- and sex-matched sibling who participated in the study 2 years later to ...
Rixon, E., Whiteside, S.P.
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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Alderete   +48 more
core   +1 more source

Vowel harmony

open access: yes, 2019
Vowel harmony refers to the phonological phenomenon that requires vowels in certain morphological or prosodic domains to agree in specific phonological features. This chapter presents a thorough revision of vowel harmony in southeastern peninsular Spanish, where the loss of some final consonants is compensated by opening the preceding vowel and the lax
Jiménez, Jesús, Lloret, Maria-Rosa
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Covariation Among Vowel Height Effects on Acoustic Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Covariation among vowel height effects on vowel intrinsic fundamental frequency (IF0), voice onset time (VOT), and voiceless interval duration (VID) is analyzed to assess the plausibility of a common physiological mechanism underlying variation in these ...
Diehl R. L.   +17 more
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Study and Comparison of Formant Characteristics of Persian Vowels in 4-7-year-old Children Using Cochlear Implants and Those Using Hearing Aids

open access: yesپزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2022
Background and Objective: One of the most important physical properties of vowels is their formant structure. One of the most obvious speech errors in hearing-impaired children is vowel errors. The present study aimed to determine and compare the formant
Bahareh Rezaei   +2 more
doaj  

Lithuanian and French Sounds: Comparative Analysis of Articulatory Features

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė, 2020
The aim of this article is to analyze the differences between Lithuanian and French sounds and to provide a general outlook of the Lithuanian articulatory phonetics mainly intended for French speakers.
Boizou Loïc, Kazlauskienė Asta
doaj   +1 more source

The Sound Pattern of Heritage Spanish: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of a Classroom Experience

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
While heritage Spanish phonetics and phonology and classroom experiences have received increased attention in recent years, these areas have yet to converge.
Rajiv Rao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

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