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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2022 This article offers a systematic and comprehensive account of vowel changes that take place in the inadmissible phonological sequence /VV/ within a word in Zulu.
Lionel Posthumus
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Vowel-vowel transitions, analysis, and modeling [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990 Male and female vowel-vowel formant transitions are analyzed using cepstral techniques. The first three formants are detected and represented as trajectories in the F1−F2, F1−F3, and F2−F3 planes. Distinctive formant trajectories are clearly revealed, exhibiting specific trajectory angles at the onset during the initial vowel and at the offset during ...
Mohammed Mrayati, René Carré
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Vocal Fold Kinematics in Phonotrauma From High Speed Videoendoscopy
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.This study aimed to quantify vocal fold vibratory kinematics associated with phonotraumatic vocal fold lesions. Results found that individuals with phonotrauma had increased vocal fold closing velocity, evidenced by a higher maximum area declination rate, and increased vibrational amplitude.
Laura E. Toles, Ted Mau
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u]. However, the mid [+ATR] vowels [e] and [o] are variants of the mid [-ATR] vowels /e/ and /i/ conditioned by a following high I+ATR] vowel ...
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Laryngeal Vibration to Treat Abductor‐Type Laryngeal Dystonia: Effectiveness and Cortical Response
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.In this study, people with abductor‐type laryngeal dystonia wore a collar with small, embedded vibrators. After vibrating the skin above the Adam's apple for 24 min, two‐thirds of participants thought their voice had noticeably improved, and objective measures of voice documented improvements in 45% of participants.
Arash Mahnan +6 more
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article deals with some of the phonetic features of medieval Mongolian language in the context of language contacts and linguageographical analysis. The author focuses on the issues related to the development problems of historical phonetics of vowel
Nikolay Badgaev
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Vowel harmony and vowel merger in Agoi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 This paper describes the vowel harmony system and patterns of vowel merger in Agoi, an Upper Cross language. Data indicate that a once fully operative system of vowel harmony has now been generally restricted to the non-high vowels, with a few residual instances of II u/-determined harmony. The evolution of this change is described.
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Vowel Classification and Vowel Space in Persian
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2015 This article aims to develop an acoustic vowel space in Persian speech. There are several aspects in this survey which make it different from what has been done before. The first is related to the issue of speech material. The need for more natural choice in voice qualities in recent years exhort us not relying on citation form or artificial sound ...
Nasim Esfandiari +2 more
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Speech Differences between Multiple System Atrophy and Parkinson's Disease
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Background Delineation of Parkinson's disease (PD) from multiple system atrophy (MSA) can be challenging in early disease stages. Speech characteristics have been studied as digital biomarkers in PD and ataxias. Currently, data on speech in MSA is limited.
Tom Hähnel +9 more
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