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German glide formation functionally viewed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j.
Hamann, Silke
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Prosody and melody in vowel disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Bates, S, Harris, J, Watson, J
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Sensorimotor Adaptation of Speech Using Real-time Articulatory Resynthesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Sensorimotor adaptation is an important focus in the study of motor learning for non-disordered speech, but has yet to be studied substantially for speech rehabilitation.
Berry, Jeffrey J.   +2 more
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Dynamics of vowel-to-vowel assimilation in French. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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).
Crouzet, Olivier, Duniec, Agnieszka
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Towards a Mental Representation of Vowel Height in SSBE Speakers

open access: yesInternational Journal of English Studies, 2012
Vigorous debate in phonetics and phonology has focused on the structure and cognitive foundation of distinctive feature theory, as well as on the definition and representation of features themselves. In particular, we show in Section 1 that, although vowel height has long been the object of close scrutiny, research on the three- or more- tiered height ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Is Hungarian Losing the Vowel Quantity Distinction? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Bombien, Lasse   +3 more
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Vowel height and register assignment in Katuic

open access: yes, 2015
As has been previously demonstrated in the literature on Katuic (Ferlus 1974a, Diffloth 1982, Sidwell 2005), there are languages in the Katuic language family, an Austroasiatic sub-branch, with register systems whose emergence cannot be comprehensively ...
Gehrmann, Ryan
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Focus strategies in chadic : the case of tangale revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under ...
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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The influence of the palate shape on articulatory token-to-token variability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al.
Brunner, Jana   +2 more
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Ekialdeko /o/-ren igoeraren testuinguru fonologikoaren bila / Looking for the phonological context of /o/-raising in Eastern Basque

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2013
In this paper I analyze the raising of the mid back vowel /o/ in Basque. This sound pattern is primarily found in Zuberoan and Roncalese, although it is present, to a lesser degree, in other eastern Basque dialects.
Ander Egurtzegi
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