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Asymmetries in the processing of vowel height
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012 Purpose: Speech perception can be described as the transformation of continuous acoustic information into discrete memory representations. Therefore, research on neural representations of speech sounds is particularly important for a better understanding
William J. Idsardi +5 more
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The perceptual basis of the feature vowel height [PDF]
, 2015 The present study investigated whether listeners perceptually map phonetic information tophonological feature categories or to phonemes. The test case is a phonological feature that occurs inmost of the world’s languages, namely vowel height, and its ...
Boersma, P. +2 more
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Vowel height as sonority level
, 2023 This paper explores two processes that target vowels in non-prominent positions: vowel reduction and vowel deletion. Our aim is to show that, despite being analyzed separately in the relevant literature, the two processes not only share certain important
Markopoulos, Giorgos +1 more
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Vocal Fry and Vowel Height in Simulated Room Acoustics [PDF]
Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2017 <b><i>Purpose:</i></b> The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of room acoustics in the relationship between vowel height and vocal fry.
Pasquale Bottalico +3 more
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Transparency and locality in Piveronese vowel harmony [PDF]
IsoglossThe Piedmontese dialect of Piverone exhibits a peculiar vowel height harmony process, in which word-final vowels alternate between high and mid depending on the height of the stressed vowel.
Stefano Canalis
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Towards a Mental Representation of Vowel Height in SSBE Speakers
International 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.
Mendousse, Kevin
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2018 Vowels in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language, are subject to Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony. Accordingly, the vowels are divided into two harmony sets which differ in terms of tongue root position.
Barasa, David
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Asymmetries in vowel-pair frequencies and height harmony in Bantu [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper, I present an exploration of vowel-pair frequencies in the nouns of six five-vowel Bantu languages and discuss their relationship with those alternations seen in verbs due to height harmony.
Nichols, Stephen; id_orcid +1 more
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The missing fundamental in vowel height perception [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1996 Traunmüller (1981) suggested that the tonotopic distance between the first formant (F1) and the fundamental frequency (F0) is a major determinant of perceived vowel height. In the present study, subjects identified a vowel-height continuum ranging in formant pattern from /I/to/epsilon/, at five F0 values.
R P, Fahey, R L, Diehl
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Preaspiration in Sienese Italian & Its Interaction with Stress in /VC:/ Sequences [PDF]
, 2004 This paper reports some initial results from our investigation into effects of stress in /VC:/ sequences in Sienese Italian. Our spontaneous speech data show preaspiration in /VC:/ sequences, not previously reported for any variety of Italian.
Marlien, Isabelle +3 more
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