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Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 A central question in the Japanese high vowel devoicing literature concerns whether vowels are devoiced through a categorical process or via gradient reduction. Examining how vowel height and consonantal voicing condition phrase-internal CV duration in a
James Tanner +2 more
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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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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The Role of Phonological and Rhythmic Skills in Learning to Write Words in Spanish
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Both phonological and stress awareness have been related to the development of literacy. Moreover, according to Goswami's temporal sampling theory, another prosodic factor, rhythmic synchronization skill, also favours reading acquisition.
Nieves Valencia‐Naranjo +3 more
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 4, July 2026.ABSTRACT Human newborns are able to discriminate between certain languages but not others. This ability has long been attributed to sensitivity to rhythm—the temporal regularities in speech of different languages. Here, we demonstrate through a series of computational simulations that this discrimination behavior can be achieved using no temporal ...
Ruolan Leslie Famularo +3 more
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Biomechanics and Evolution of the Primate Tongue
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Primate tongue morphology and function are critical to understanding the evolution of feeding, swallowing, and vocalization. In this paper, we examine the primate tongue as a muscular hydrostat with regionally specialized neuromuscular compartments. We integrate anatomical, kinematic, and biomechanical modeling approaches to analyze how muscle
Yeganeh Sekhavati +2 more
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2026.A case of MRX93 in a 1‐year‐and‐3‐month‐old girl was reported, in whom a heterozygous deletion from exon 21 to exon 30 in the BRWD3 gene occurred. We conducted a literature review to explore the clinical phenotypes and genetic characteristics of MRX93 in females. ABSTRACT Objective To report the clinical manifestations and genetic diagnosis of a female
Yang Xiu +4 more
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Constraints on the Theory of Vowel Height
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994 Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
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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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