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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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Partial vowel harmonies as evidence for a Height Node.
, 1991 In this dissertation I examine partial vowel assimilations, where more than one but less than all vowel features pattern together in a phonological rule. The result of this dissertation research is the 'Height Node Geometry'.
Wiswall, Wendy Jeanne
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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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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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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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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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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 To estimate the contributions of feedforward vs. feedback control systems in speech articulation, we analyzed the correspondence between initial and final kinematics in unperturbed tongue and jaw movements for consonant-vowel (CV) and vowel-consonant (VC)
Kwang Seob Kim, Ludo eMax, Ludo eMax
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
, 2008 This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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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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