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Reconsidering the mid-vowel system of Parisian French:

Isogloss
The French mid vowel system exhibits a complex marginal phonological contrast. The distributions of three pairs of vowels (/e, ɛ/; /o, ɔ/; /ø, œ/) are neither completely contrastive nor allophonic, and their heights vary, leading to overlapping phonetic ...
Joshua Griffiths, Margaret Renwick
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Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

Languages, 2018
Studies show that second language (L2) learners’ perceptual patterns differ depending on their native dialect (e.g., Chládková and Podlipský 2011; Escudero and Williams 2012).
Jaydene Elvin, Alba Tuninetti, Paola Escudero   +2 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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Robustness and Complexity in Italian Mid Vowel Contrasts

Languages
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language.
Margaret E. L. Renwick
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Acquisition and attrition in bilingual vowel systems: evidence from Arabic and English

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThis study examined how long-term immersion in a second language (L2) affects the acquisition and maintenance of long vowels in bilinguals whose first language (L1) is Arabic or English.
Amirah Saud Alharbi, Lisa Kornder, Anouschka Foltz   +2 more
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Towards a Mental Representation of Vowel Height in SSBE Speakers

International Journal of English Studies, 2012
Vigorous debate in phonetics and phonology has focused on the structure and cognitive foundation of distinctive feature theory, as well as on the definition and representation of features themselves. In particular, we show in Section 1 that, although vowel height has long been the object of close scrutiny, research on the three- or more- tiered height ...
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The relationship between the coarticulatory source and effect in sound change: evidence from Italo-Romance metaphony in the Lausberg area

Laboratory Phonology
In ongoing sound changes, a coarticulatory effect is often enhanced as the coarticulatory source that gives rise to it wanes. But quite how phonologisation and these reciprocal coarticulatory changes are connected is still poorly understood.
Jonathan Harrington, Michele Gubian, Pia Greca   +2 more
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Ekialdeko /o/-ren igoeraren testuinguru fonologikoaren bila / Looking for the phonological context of /o/-raising in Eastern Basque

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2013
In this paper I analyze the raising of the mid back vowel /o/ in Basque. This sound pattern is primarily found in Zuberoan and Roncalese, although it is present, to a lesser degree, in other eastern Basque dialects.
Ander Egurtzegi
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The perceptual basis of the feature vowel height

, 2015
The present study investigated whether listeners perceptually map phonetic information tophonological feature categories or to phonemes. The test case is a phonological feature that occurs inmost of the world’s languages, namely vowel height, and its acoustic correlate, the first formant (F1).We first simulated vowel discrimination in virtual listeners
Chládková, K., Boersma, P., Benders, T.   +2 more
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A pilot study on the acoustic effects of a pseudo-palatal plate on speech: Implications for articulatory rehabilitation devices. [PDF]

PLoS One
Woo ST, Na S.
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