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Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 Yeyi (Bantu, R41) is an endangered language spoken in northwestern Botswana and northeastern Namibia. Yeyi exhibits two peculiar processes of regressive vowel harmony.
Hilde Gunnink
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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 ...
Shirley Yul-Ifode
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Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana [PDF]
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Recent developmental evidence shows that the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels for lexical processing is not universal but language‐specific. In non‐tone languages, a consonant bias emerges early in development in Romance languages (e.g., French) but later in Germanic languages (e.g., English), while evidence from Asian ...
Paul Okyere Omane +2 more
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Assessment and Diagnostic Standards of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Turkish‐Speaking Children: A Scoping Review [PDF]
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder for which assessment and diagnostic standards have been largely informed by studies of English‐speaking populations. Evidence related to CAS in Turkish‐speaking children remains sparse, is published across both Turkish‐ and English‐language sources, and variable in ...
Eddy C. H. Wong +2 more
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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].
Torben Andersen
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Vowel harmony in Jingulu [PDF]
Lingua, 2002 Jingulu, a language of North-Central Australia, exhibits a pattern of regressive vowel harmony which is not only difficult to characterise accurately in descriptive terms, but also poses challenges for current theories of vowel harmony. The purpose of this article is thus threefold: to describe a fascinating phonological phenomenon, to formulate ...
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Igede is a language that operates a nine vowel system. It displays harmony system constraint by pharyngeal constriction. Vowels fall into two harmonic sets of [+ATR] and [-ATR] with no overlap. Where we have disharmonic morphemes, our analysis shows that
Michael Abiodun
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Turkish Hearing in Noise Test for Adults: Revisited and Updated Normative Data [PDF]
Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, Volume 11, Issue 4, August 2026.This study presents headphone and loudspeaker normative data for the Turkish HINT in quiet environment outside a sound‐treated booth. It also discusses challenges encountered during test administration and offers practical solutions for their management.
Şule Çekiç +2 more
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Typological asymmetries in round vowel harmony: Support from artificial grammar learning [PDF]
Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012 Sara Finley
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Vowel Harmony in the Kihnu Variety of Estonian: A Corpus Study [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 This paper investigates back/front vowel harmony in the Kihnu variety of Estonian. Data from the Estonian Dialect Corpus are analyzed to inform the description of harmony in this dialect, a phenomenon that has been understudied in the literature ...
Kaili Vesik
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