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Perception of ATR contrasts by Akan speakers: a case of perceptual near-merger
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Despite many acoustic, articulatory and phonological studies of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel contrasts and vowel harmony, studies of the perception of ATR contrasts by speakers of languages with ATR vowel distinctions are lacking. This paper explores
Michael Obiri-Yeboah +2 more
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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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ON the high non-expanded vowels of Yoruboid
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A current debate going on among Yoruba linguists is the existence and phonological status of the high non-expanded vowels. Indeed while Igala, Isekiri and many Yoruba dialects exhibit a seven-vowel system, other Yoruba dialects exhibit a ·nine-vowel ...
Hounkpati B. Capo
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A perceptual pathway for voicing-conditioned vowel duration
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 When codas and vowels are cross-spliced, vowels originally produced with voiced codas are perceived as longer than vowels of the same duration produced with voiceless codas. The spliced coda has the opposite effect: Vowels presented with voiced codas are
Chelsea Sanker
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Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Glossa, 2021 Phonologization is often understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is explicitly encoded in the grammar.
Alan C. L. Yu
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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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Change in Buchan vowel harmony
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2022 English is not typically considered to be a vowel harmony language, and yet one of its cousins, Buchan Scots, clearly shows vowel-harmonic patterns. This involves a type of height harmony which is blocked by certain consonants and consonant clusters ...
Debbie Schindelman
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Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 This paper is the first to describe aspects of the vocalic phonology of Mbat, a Jarawan Bantu language. Mbat exhibits a series of vowel-consonant interactions in its verbs that sometimes yield height harmony between a stem and suffixal vowel.
Christopher R. Green
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Assessing vowel effects on voice quality, and voice quality effects on the respiratory system [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 This study assesses (a) effects of vowel height and tense-lax status on the laryngeal closed quotient (CQ) and (b) whether respiratory volume changes vary with differences in CQ.
Laura L. Koenig, Susanne Fuchs
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Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento) in Soprano Voices
Music & Science, 2021 Singers convey meaning via both text and music. As sopranos balance tone quality and diction, vowel intelligibility is often compromised at high pitches.
May Pik Yu Chan, Youngah Do
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