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Constraints on the Theory of Vowel Height

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
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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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Changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori [PDF]

, 2009
This paper discusses changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori. Data on changes in the pronunciation of Māori derives from the MAONZE project (Māori and New Zealand English with support from the Marsden ...
Harlow, Ray, Keegan, Peter J., King, Jeanette, Maclagan, Margaret, Watson, Catherine I.   +4 more
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Model of the Classification of English Vowels by Spanish Speakers [PDF]

, 1999
A number of models of single language vowel classification based on formant representations have been proposed. We propose a new model that explicitly predicts vowel perception by second language (L2) learners based on the phonological map of their ...
Cohen, Michael, Guenther, Frank, Husaine, Fatima, Negishi, Michiro   +3 more
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Palate-referenced Articulatory Features for Acoustic-to-Articulator Inversion [PDF]

, 2014
The selection of effective articulatory features is an important component of tasks such as acoustic-to-articulator inversion and articulatory synthesis.
Berry, Jeffrey J., Ji, An, Johnson, Michael T   +2 more
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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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What tone teaches us about language [PDF]

, 2018
In ‘Tone: Is it different?’ (Hyman 2011a), I suggested that ‘tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so’, emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do.
Hyman, LM
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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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