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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2019 The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Development of tones from vowel height?
Journal of Phonetics, 1977 Abstract: The development of contrastive tones on vowels due to the loss of a voicing distinction on obstruents in prevocalic position is widely attested and rather well understood. On the other hand intrinsic fundamental frequency variations caused by vowel height rarely, if at all, give rise to the development of phonological tones.
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Biomechanics and Evolution of the Primate Tongue. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT Primate tongue morphology and function are critical to understanding the evolution of feeding, swallowing, and vocalization. In this paper, we examine the primate tongue as a muscular hydrostat with regionally specialized neuromuscular compartments. We integrate anatomical, kinematic, and biomechanical modeling approaches to analyze how muscle
Sekhavati Y, Sellers KC, Ross CF.
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia. [PDF]
Ann Clin Transl NeurolABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
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Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
Glossa, 2021 Phonologization is often understood to be a process along the pathway of sound change where low-level physiological or perceptual variation that gives rise to sound patterns is explicitly encoded in the grammar.
Alan C. L. Yu
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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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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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Quantity distinction in the Hungarian vowel system - just theory or also reality? [PDF]
, 2007 According to most current theories, the Hungarian vowel system involves 14 vowels that correspond to seven vowel pairs, each differentiated by quantity.
Mády, Katalin, Reichel, Uwe D.
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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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