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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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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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Establishing the Three-Way Voicing Contrast in Madurese Stops
Humaniora, 2017 Madurese, a Western Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island of Madura, has been described as having a three-way voicing contrast (i.e. voiced, voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated) in its stops.
Misnadin Misnadin
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A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2022 This contribution is concerned with the reconstruction of the vowel qualities of Proto-Tupian, the ancestral language of the Tupian language family. The study is grounded in a bottom-up application of the comparative method and seeks to offer a more ...
Andrey Nikulin, Fernando Carvalho
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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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Comparative Analysis of Persian Vowels Features in Congenitally Blind and Sighted Students in Acoustic Phonetics [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2016 Congenital visual impairment deprives children of an important source of information affecting acquired concepts as well as speech production. The primary aim of the research was to evaluate the extent to which blindness may affect vowel features ...
Tahereh Mahmoodi Ahmadabadi +3 more
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Learning Biases for Vowel Height Harmony
Journal of Cognitive Science, 2012 We test the role of phonetic grounding and typological tendencies on learning biases for vowel height harmony, a phonological process in which vowels within a word are required to share phonological features for height. Several height harmony languages are constrained such that vowels ([i, e]) undergo harmony following both front and back vowels, while
null Sara Finley, null William Badecker
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Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2016 This paper follows up on some of the phonetic assumptions underlying earlier discussions in the phonological literature of the vowel reduction in Brazilian Portuguese such as Crosswhite (2004) and Flemming (2004), among others.
Filomena Sandalo, Michael Kenstowicz
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