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Spectral discontinuities and the vowel-length effect [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994 Perception of the voicing contrast in CV syllables can be affected by the duration of the following vowel such that longer vowels lead to more ‘‘voiced’’ responses. On the basis of several experiments, Green, Stevens, and Kuhl [Percept. Psychophys.
A J, Lotto, K R, Kluender, K P, Green
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Perception of temporally contrasted Japanese words by Spanish-English bilinguals and American English monolinguals [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Japanese and English use temporal cues within vowels, suggesting an audio-processing advantage for temporally-cued contrasts, while Spanish does not.
Miwako Hisagi +3 more
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Biomechanics and Evolution of the Primate Tongue. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT 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
Sekhavati Y, Sellers KC, Ross CF.
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Rule scattering and vowel length in Northern Romance
Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 In this paper I reconsider the synchronic status of distinctive vowel length and vowel lengthening and shortening rules in Northern Romance varieties, in light of Loporcaro’s (2015) wide-ranging study of vowel quantity in numerous Romance dialects ...
Pavel Iosad
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The Prehistory of the Slavic Vowel System (A Reply to Mate Kapović)
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2020 The methodological differences between Kapović and myself are threefold: (1) He disregards the chronological aspects of linguistic developments. As a result, he mixes up elements from different stages of development.
Frederik Kortlandt
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Development of Minimal Pair Test in Tamil (MPT-T) [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021 Introduction: Speech perception testing provides an accurate measurement of the child’s ability to perceive and distinguish the various phonetic segments and patterns of the sounds.
Kavitha Vijayakumar +2 more
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The effect of lexical stress on vowel quality in Persian [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2014 In certain languages, vowel quality changes in unstressed syllables. In acoustic phonetics, this characteristic, namely vowel 'undershoot' under certain conditions and the tendency to centralize, is referred to as 'vowel reduction'.
گلناز مدرسی قوامی
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Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Many drum communication systems around the world transmit information by emulating tonal and rhythmic patterns of spoken languages in sequences of drumbeats.
Frank Seifart +3 more
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Categoricity, Variation, and Gradience in Sambla Balafon Segmental Encoding
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper analyzes the musical surrogate encoding of Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) syllable structure on the balafon, a resonator xylophone used by the Sambla ethnicity.
Laura McPherson
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On the Tail of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2016 One of the most famous sound features of Scottish English is the short/long timing alternation of /i u ai/ vowels, which depends on the morpho-phonemic environment, and is known as the Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR). These alternations make the status of vowel quantity in Scottish English (quasi-)phonemic but are also susceptible to change ...
Rathcke, Tamara, Stuart-Smith, Jane
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