A cross-linguistic database of phonetic transcription systems [PDF]
, 2018 Contrary to what non-practitioners might expect, the systems of phonetic notation used by linguists are highly idiosyncratic. Not only do various linguistic subfields disagree on the specific symbols they use to denote the speech sounds of languages, but
Anderson, C. +6 more
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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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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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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]
, 2009 We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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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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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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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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Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech [PDF]
, 2003 This case study reports on an acoustic investigation of the motor speech characteristics of a set of young adult male monozygotic (MZ) twins and compares them to those of an age- and sex-matched sibling who participated in the study 2 years later to ...
Rixon, E., Whiteside, S.P.
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