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Asymmetric Influence of Vocalic Context on Mandarin Sibilants: Evidence From ERP Studies
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 In the present study, we examine the interactive effect of vowels on Mandarin fricative sibilants using a passive oddball paradigm to determine whether the HEIGHT features of vowels can spread on the surface and influence preceding consonants with ...
Yaxuan Meng +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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Mid Vowel Alternations in Verbal Stems in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003 This paper proposes an alternative analysis for mid vowel alternations in verbal stems in BP, treating them as vowel coalescence, where two input vowels unite into a single output vowel that shares features of its ancestor, in the framework of Optimality
Seung-Hwa Lee
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Gradient and categorical assimilation of pretonic vowels in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper addresses the acoustic realisations of the pretonic vowels /e, o/ that have been previously reported to undergo regressive vowel harmony in Brazilian Portuguese. It examines how the height of pretonic /e, o/ is affected by the phonological and
Magnun Rochel Madruga +2 more
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Cantonese Loanwords: Conflicting Faithfulness in VC Rime Constraints
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2012 This paper focuses on the ways in which English loanwords are brought into line with four phonotactic constraints that restrict the possible combinations of nuclear vowels and coda consonants in Cantonese Chinese.
Michael J. Kenstowicz
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Nasal coda neutralization in Shanghai Mandarin: Articulatory and perceptual evidence
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Shanghai Mandarin is reported to neutralize /n/ and /ŋ/ after non-low vowels, a change also reported for other varieties of Chinese. However, the place of articulation of the resulting nasal is unclear.
Matthew Faytak +2 more
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Transparency and locality in Piveronese vowel harmony
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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Vowel duration in stressed and unstressed syllables in spontaneous English
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: PhilologicaMany phonetic “truths” are based on descriptions of controlled speech material, and verifying their validity in spontaneous productions is essential. The present study investigates vowel duration as an acoustic correlate of stress in spontaneous English,
Nela Bradíková, Radek Skarnitzl
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Vowel Height: Reconsidering Distinctive Features
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1998 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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