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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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Influence of spectral prominence on perceived vowel height [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1985 Earlier experiments on the perception of vowel height comparing oral with nasal vowels, and one- with two-formant vowels, indicated (1) center of gravity (measured in terms of a simple weighted average of spectral components in the F1-F2 region) does not closely predict perceived vowel height and (2) F1 influences the perceived height of oral vowels ...
S. Hawkins, P. S. Beddor
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 Coarticulation makes vowels in context acoustically different from context-free vowels. Listeners sometimes compensate by ascribing these acoustic effects to their source, but the conditions under which they do so have not yet been fully pinpointed ...
Anne Pycha, Georgia Zellou
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Vowel alternation in disyllabic reduplicatives: an areal dimension
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011 This paper analyzes a variety of languages with regard to vowel alternation patterns in their disyllabic sound symbolic reduplicatives (DSRs). The analysis reveals that (1) a number of different languages have their preferred patterns of vowel ...
Shinji Ido
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016 Stress placement in English words is governed by highly complicated rules. Thus, assigning stress correctly in English words has been a challenging task for L2 learners, especially Indonesian learners since their L1 does not recognize such stress system.
Clara Herlina Karjo
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Learning phonemic vowel length from naturalistic recordings of Japanese infant-directed speech. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In Japanese, vowel duration can distinguish the meaning of words. In order for infants to learn this phonemic contrast using simple distributional analyses, there should be reliable differences in the duration of short and long vowels, and the frequency ...
Ricardo A H Bion +3 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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