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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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Patterns of jaw coarticulatory direction and linguomandibular coordination in VCV sequences

, 2013
Data on lingual movement, dorsopalatal contact and F2 frequency presented in previous papers of ours (Recasens, 2002; Recasens and Pallarès, 2001; Recasens, Pallarès and Fontdevila, 1997) suggest that the degree of articulatory constraint (DAC) model ...
Recasens, Daniel
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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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Menominee vowel harmony revisited: A height-based underspecification account

, 2016
The Algonquian language Menominee has a vowel harmony process that raises /e, o/ to /i, u/ when a high vowel follows anywhere in the word. Importantly, an intervening /æ/ blocks harmony, but /a/ does not.
Oxford, Will
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Features used to discriminate vowel height in voiced and whispered speech

The purpose of this study was to define acoustic cues used to discriminate vowel height in voiced and whispered speech. Seventeen speakers produced sustained oral vowels, disyllabic words, sentences and read a phonetically balanced text.
Castilho, Sara, Costa, Maria Conceição, Ferreira, Aníbal J. S., Jesus, Luis M. T.   +3 more
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Vowel harmony in Buchan Scots English

, 2002
In this article, I discuss vowel reduction, stress, and vowel harmony in Buchan Scots English, a dialect spoken in Aberdeenshire in northern Scotland. Work by Wölck (1965) describes Buchan Scots English as having vowel harmony.
Colleen M. Fitzgerald
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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts

Languages
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Dynamics of vowel-to-vowel assimilation in French.

, 2013
International audienceVowel-to-vowel assimilation in French is described as an anticipatory process affecting non-final mid vowels (V1) : [e], [E], [ø], [œ], [o], [O] that assimilate in height to the final tonic vowel (V2).
Duniec, Agnieszka, Crouzet, Olivier
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Acquisition and attrition in bilingual vowel systems: evidence from Arabic and English

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThis study examined how long-term immersion in a second language (L2) affects the acquisition and maintenance of long vowels in bilinguals whose first language (L1) is Arabic or English.
Amirah Saud Alharbi, Lisa Kornder, Anouschka Foltz   +2 more
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