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Neutral vowels in Lokaa harmony [PDF]
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2009 AbstractThis paper discusses the four neutral vowels in Lokaa harmony, [i, u, ə, a]. Crosslinguistically, neutral segments are either transparent or opaque. Lokaa harmony is important in three crucial respects. First, languages with both transparent and opaque vowels are not common; Lokaa has both.
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Pitch Strength & Percent Vocal Creak to Assess Treatment Response in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.Pitch Strength (PS) and Percent Vocal Creak (%VC) were measured before and after botulinum neurotoxin treatment in patients with adductor laryngeal dystonia (AdLD). While PS and %VC correlated with changes in disruption frequency and perceptual severity, they did not demonstrate robust group‐level treatment sensitivity.
Jesse D. Hoffmeister +5 more
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Progressive Vowel Harmony in Gomoa [PDF]
, 2021 Previous studies on Akan ATR vowel harmony, including Berry (1957), Stewart (1967), Schachter & Fromkin (1968), Dolphyne (1988) have centered on the concepts of regressive (anticipatory) directionality.
Odoom, John, Adomako, Kwasi
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Domains and directionality in Kinande vowel harmony: a Correspondence approach
Glossa, 2022 The ATR vowel harmony patterns observed in Kinande have received persistent attention for their combination of stem control and dominance, as well as less familiar phenomena such as dominance reversal and cross-word harmony.
Laura J. Downing, Martin Krämer
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Beyond Group Outcomes: Gender‐Affirming Glottoplasty and Postoperative Voice Therapy
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective(s) To describe outcomes of gender‐affirming glottoplasty with adjunctive voice therapy in trans women and explore relationships between acoustic and patient‐reported measures of voice. Method A prospective, descriptive and exploratory study included 58 trans women undergoing glottoplasty performed and followed in a single ...
Nicole Free +5 more
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Transparency and locality in Piveronese vowel harmony
IsoglossThe Piedmontese dialect of Piverone exhibits a peculiar vowel height harmony process, in which word-final vowels alternate between high and mid depending on the height of the stressed vowel.
Stefano Canalis
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Proto-Berber Mid Vowel Harmony
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 The Berber nominal prefix allomorphs a-/ta- and e-/te- have been shown to be phonetically conditioned (Van Putten 2016). This paper will examine other cases of the Berber vowel e where it shows interchange with the vowel a, and will try to show that ...
Marijn van Putten
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Change in Vocal Resonance Following Sinonasal Surgery
World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives Delineate objective and clinician‐perceived subjective changes in voice quality following sinonasal surgery. Methods Prospective cohort study of six adults who completed pre‐ and post‐operative voice recordings which were analyzed for jitter, shimmer, noise to harmonic ratio (NHR), cepstral peak prominence (CPP), formant and anti ...
Meha G. Fox +5 more
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Vowel Harmony in Trabzon Turkish [PDF]
, 2021 Little is known about patterns of vowel harmony change in language contact situations. Trabzon Turkish (TT), which is spoken in the North East of Turkey and has a language contact history with (Pontic) Greek, Armenian, and Laz, provides such a context ...
Demir, Nese
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The phonology of vocalic height in Kikuria
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 Vowel height harmony is common in Bantu languages, but the language Kikuria has a particularly rich system of vowel height alternations, which are described in this paper.
Chacha Nyaigotti Chacha, David Odden
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