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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Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Recent developmental evidence shows that the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels for lexical processing is not universal but language‐specific. In non‐tone languages, a consonant bias emerges early in development in Romance languages (e.g., French) but later in Germanic languages (e.g., English), while evidence from Asian ...
Omane PO, Duah RA, Nazzi T.
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Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift. [PDF]
, 2004 This article is a contribution to the debate about the primacy of internal versus external factors in language change (Farrar and Jones 2002; Thomason and Kaufman 1988).
Torgersen, Eivind, Kerswill, Paul
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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 acoustic correlate, the first formant (F1).We first simulated vowel discrimination in virtual listeners
Chládková, K. +2 more
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Auditory Sensitivity in Autism: A Systematic Review of Mismatch Negativity and Mismatch Field Responses. [PDF]
Autism ResABSTRACT Auditory mismatch responses—mismatch negativity (MMN) and mismatch fields (MMF)—are well established electrophysiological markers of automatic auditory discrimination supported by short‐term sensory memory. These responses, typically elicited using passive oddball paradigms, are increasingly used to investigate sensory and language processing ...
Cacciato-Salcedo S +4 more
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Change in Buchan vowel harmony
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2022 English is not typically considered to be a vowel harmony language, and yet one of its cousins, Buchan Scots, clearly shows vowel-harmonic patterns. This involves a type of height harmony which is blocked by certain consonants and consonant clusters ...
Debbie Schindelman
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Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 This paper is the first to describe aspects of the vocalic phonology of Mbat, a Jarawan Bantu language. Mbat exhibits a series of vowel-consonant interactions in its verbs that sometimes yield height harmony between a stem and suffixal vowel.
Christopher R. Green
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Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento) in Soprano Voices
Music & Science, 2021 Singers convey meaning via both text and music. As sopranos balance tone quality and diction, vowel intelligibility is often compromised at high pitches.
May Pik Yu Chan, Youngah Do
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Assessing vowel effects on voice quality, and voice quality effects on the respiratory system [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 This study assesses (a) effects of vowel height and tense-lax status on the laryngeal closed quotient (CQ) and (b) whether respiratory volume changes vary with differences in CQ.
Laura L. Koenig, Susanne Fuchs
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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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