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Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we describe a new method to diminish microprosodic components of fundamental frequency contours by applying weight functions linked to microprosodically classified phone combinations.
Reichel, Uwe D., Winkelmann, Raphael
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Regional Variability and Ethnic Identity:Chinese Americans in New York City and San Francisco [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the realizations of the BOUGHT vowel (in words like ‘taught’ and ‘sauce’) by Chinese Americans of Cantonese heritage in New York City and San Francisco.
Hall-Lew, Lauren, Wong, Amy Wing-mei
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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]
, 2004 We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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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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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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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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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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Some acoustic and articulatory correlates of phrasal stress in Spanish [PDF]
, 2016 All spoken languages show rhythmic patterns. Recent work with a number of different languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and French) suggests that metrically (hierarchically) assigned stress levels of the utterance show strong correlations
Erickson, Donna +5 more
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Perceptual compensation for vowel intrinsic f0 effects in native English speakers [PDF]
JASA Express LettersHigh vowels have higher f0 than low vowels, creating a context effect on the interpretation of f0. Since onset F0 is a cue to stop voicing, the vowel context is expected to influence voicing judgements. Listeners categorized syllables starting with high (
Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards
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