Partial vowel harmonies as evidence for a Height Node.
, 1991 In this dissertation I examine partial vowel assimilations, where more than one but less than all vowel features pattern together in a phonological rule. The result of this dissertation research is the 'Height Node Geometry'.
Wiswall, Wendy Jeanne
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Influence of fundamental frequency in the perception of vowel height [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1986 Acoustic analysis of the vocalic portions of CVC nonsense syllables spoken by three speakers (two males and one female) shows that, in the dimension representing vowel height, individual differences for low vowels are reduced when the vowels are represented by the difference F1-F0 rather than by F.
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Distribution and Acoustic Characteristics of Filled Pauses in Spontaneous Urdu Speech
LanguagesThis study examines the distribution and acoustic characteristics of filled pauses (FPs) in Urdu, a language underrepresented in disfluency research. Drawing on a spontaneous speech dataset from 18 female speakers, the analysis considers the types of FPs,
Saira Zahid +2 more
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Variation in the formant dynamics of southeastern Nigerian English diphthongs
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis study investigates the phonetic realization of diphthongs in southeastern Nigerian English (sNigE) to focus on the influence of gender and regional variation and the role of formant trajectories in vowel identity. Building on prior claims that sNigE
Oluwasegun Amoniyan, Moses Melefa
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Production of Estonian vowels by Finnish speakers
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019 In the study, we examined the production of Estonian vowel categories by second language (L2) speakers of Estonian (native language Finnish) and compared them to those of native Estonian (L1) speakers.
Einar Meister, Lya Meister
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Vowel Height Assimilation in Bantu Languages
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1991 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp.
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A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony: Evidence from Hungarian
Glossa, 2019 This paper provides a novel perspective on neutrality in vowel harmony, using evidence from Hungarian. Despite the extensive study of Hungarian vowel harmony, the intermediate neutrality of [e:], which can alternate harmonically with [a:], is rarely ...
Avery Ozburn
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The effect of vowel height on Voice Onset Time in stop consonants in CV sequences in spontaneous Danish [PDF]
, 2013 Voice onset time has been reported to vary with the height of vowels following the stop consonant. This paper investigates the effects of vowel height on VOT in Danish CV sequences with stop consonants in Danish spontaneous speech.
Tøndering, John +1 more
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Ensino da componente fonético-fonológica: uma síntese e um exemplo de português para estrangeiros
Linguística, 2017 The current study follows the perspective of Educational Linguistics, and tries to respond to a specific need: to provide teachers of Portuguese as a Foreign Language with a guide to more effectively and quickly create didactic materials to teach ...
Adelina Castelo
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A large-scale investigation of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the world’s lexicons
GlossaThis paper explores whether there are universal trends for vowels that co-occur to share featural properties. The existence of various productive featural vowel harmony systems across the world’s languages suggests that the factors underlying harmony may
Bruno Ferenc Segedin
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