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Production of Estonian vowels by Finnish speakers

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019
In the study, we examined the production of Estonian vowel categories by second language (L2) speakers of Estonian (native language Finnish) and compared them to those of native Estonian (L1) speakers.
Einar Meister, Lya Meister
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A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony: Evidence from Hungarian

Glossa, 2019
This paper provides a novel perspective on neutrality in vowel harmony, using evidence from Hungarian. Despite the extensive study of Hungarian vowel harmony, the intermediate neutrality of [e:], which can alternate harmonically with [a:], is rarely ...
Avery Ozburn
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Ensino da componente fonético-fonológica: uma síntese e um exemplo de português para estrangeiros

Linguística, 2017
The current study follows the perspective of Educational Linguistics, and tries to respond to a specific need: to provide teachers of Portuguese as a Foreign Language with a guide to more effectively and quickly create didactic materials to teach ...
Adelina Castelo
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A large-scale investigation of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the world’s lexicons

Glossa
This paper explores whether there are universal trends for vowels that co-occur to share featural properties. The existence of various productive featural vowel harmony systems across the world’s languages suggests that the factors underlying harmony may
Bruno Ferenc Segedin
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Reconsidering the mid-vowel system of Parisian French:

Isogloss
The French mid vowel system exhibits a complex marginal phonological contrast. The distributions of three pairs of vowels (/e, ɛ/; /o, ɔ/; /ø, œ/) are neither completely contrastive nor allophonic, and their heights vary, leading to overlapping phonetic ...
Joshua Griffiths, Margaret Renwick
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Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

Languages, 2018
Studies show that second language (L2) learners’ perceptual patterns differ depending on their native dialect (e.g., Chládková and Podlipský 2011; Escudero and Williams 2012).
Jaydene Elvin, Alba Tuninetti, Paola Escudero   +2 more
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Is "intrinsic vowel duration" bio-mechanical or more? Preliminary results from Northwestern Italian

A well-known property of vowel duration is that it tends to be modulated by vowel height: higher vowels are usually shorter than lower vowels (aka ``intrinsic vowel duration'').
Stefano Coretta
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Vowel Height: Reconsidering Distinctive Features

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1998
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
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Vowel harmony in Romance languages

This chapter presents the main features of vowel harmony (VH) patterns in Romance. Virtually all Romance harmonies are unidirectional—that is, they are right-to-left or left-to-right processes.
Jiménez, Jesús, Lloret, Maria-Rosa, Renwick, Margaret E. L., Canalis, Stefano   +3 more
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Vowel alternations in arabic phonology

, 1990
This paper aims at giving a descriptive account of vowel alternations of verbs in a Bedouin Arabic dialect. The paper shows that we can account for the vowel alternations by three phonological processes.
Irshied, Omar M.
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