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Vowel Length Expands Perceptual and Emotional Evaluations in Written Japanese Sound-Symbolic Words [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2021 In this study, we examined whether vowel length affected the perceptual and emotional evaluations of Japanese sound-symbolic words. The perceptual and emotional features of Japanese sound-symbolic words, which included short and long vowels, were ...
Zihan Lin +3 more
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Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Speech perception patterns are strongly influenced by one's native phonology. It is generally accepted that native English listeners rely primarily on spectral cues when perceiving vowels, making limited use of duration cues because English lacks ...
Kakeru Yazawa +2 more
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Double trouble: Using spellings of different lengths to represent vowel length in English [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2023 Ruth Altmiller +2 more
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An instrumental analysis of English vowels produced by Omanis
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This article examines the pronunciation of English monophthongs by ten male Omani speakers. Vowel quality was measured according to the frequencies of the first (F1) and second formants (F2), and vowel duration was measured to investigate length ...
Ali Hubais, Stefanie Pillai
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Perceptual sensitivity to vowel quality and vowel length in the first year of life [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 The perceptual attunement to native vowel categories has been reported to occur at 6 months of age. However, some languages contrast vowels both in quality and in length, and whether and how the acquisition of spectral and duration-cued contrasts differs
Nikola Paillereau +5 more
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Phonetic and phonological considerations on the moraic status of pre-NC vowels in Bemba
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 The pre-NC vowel in many Bantu languages is generally understood to be long. In Bemba, where there is also a vowel length contrast, this raises the question whether the pre-NC vowel is phonetically as long as lexical long vowels and how phonologised this
Hamann, Silke , Kula, Nancy C.
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Vowel Length in Kasim, Samoma and Birifor [PDF]
Akofena, 2023 : In a comparative approach, this article reports on the status of vowel length in Kasim, Samoma and Birifor. The purpose of this study is to highlight the similarities and differences that exist between these three languages regarding vowel quantity ...
Issoufou François TIROGO & Noéllie SOUBEIGA
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Against vowel length in Tigrinya
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The premise of this paper is that vowel length plays no role in the synchronic phonology of Tigrinya: processes affecting vowels should be treated in qualitative terms only.
Eugene Buckley
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This article reports the results of two experiments investigating the combined role of vowel length and length of fricative voicing in the identification, by Brazilians, of minimal pairs such as casa /z/ – caça /s/ produced by speakers of Spanish (L1 ...
Luciene Bassols Brisolara +1 more
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The ΔF method of vocal tract length normalization for vowels
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Given the acoustic consequences of physiological differences between talkers, there is a practical need for effective and theoretically motivated procedures of vowel normalization to facilitate comparison of speech produced by people who differ by ...
Keth Johnson
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