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The “center of gravity” and perceived vowel height [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1984 In oral vowels, perceived height is determined by the “center of gravity” of the spectral prominence in the vicinity of F1 rather than by F1 peak frequency [Chistovich and Lublinskaya, Hear. Res. 1, 185–95 (1979)]. The present study of nasal vowels assessed the generality of the center of gravity effect. Five nasal vowels,/ɪ̄ ē ǣ ā ō/, were synthesized.
Patrice Specter Beddot, Sarah Hawkins
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]
, 2009 The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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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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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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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Prosody and melody in vowel disorder [PDF]
, 1999 The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Watson, J, Bates, S, Harris, J
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Are articulations integrated in the perception of vowel height? [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1991 Using the Garner paraidgm [W. Garner (1974)], Kingston [Phonetica (in press)] demonstrated that the acoustic effects of differences in velum height (the frequency separation of the nasal pole and zero =nasalization) and rate of vocal fold vibration (fundamental frequency) which covary with tongue height in vowels are integrated perceptually with the ...
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated the phonetic training performance of 80 first language (L1) Catalan/Spanish advanced second language (L2) English learners in a four‐session high‐variability phonetic training (HVPT) program and how their training progress interacted with stimuli type (nonwords vs. words) and individual differences in auditory selective
Ingrid Mora‐Plaza +3 more
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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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