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Improved Estimation of Parkinsonian Vowel Quality through Acoustic Feature Assimilation [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2021 This paper investigated the performance of a number of acoustic measures, both individually and in combination, in predicting the perceived quality of sustained vowels produced by people impaired with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Amr Gaballah +3 more
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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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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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Acoustic analysis of vowel production in adults with autism spectrum disorder: beyond the notion of a unitary autistic voice [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionSpeech in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carries distinctive acoustic signatures that can offer valuable insight into the nature of autistic communication and its identification. Among these, vowel production remains insufficiently understood,
Georgios P. Georgiou +2 more
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Languages, 2017 The quantity of research on Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish phonetics has increased over the last decade, including studies on the possible effect of code-switching on Spanish phonetics.
Vanessa Elias +2 more
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A Description of Hobart English Monophthongs: Vowel and Voice Quality
LanguagesThis study focuses on vowel variation in Mainstream Australian English, describing F1/F2 vowel spaces and voice quality produced by speakers from the capital, Hobart, of the island state of Tasmania.
Rael Stanley, Debbie Loakes
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Vowel Quality and Vowel Length in English as a Lingua Franca in Spain
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2018 In today’s globalised world, the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a reality. Given the fact that pronunciation deviations from the native-speaker norm are one of the main causes of communication breakdown (Jenkins 2000), it feels necessary to ...
María Ángeles Jurado-Bravo
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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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Quality of Javanese and Sundanese Vowels
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 The vowel quality of Javanese and Sundanese is influenced by phonation types. The acoustic measurements of the differences in phonation between all Javanese and Sundanese vowels have not been instrumentally examined. Evidence suggests that F1 lowering is
Arum Perwitasari +3 more
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Gradual Vowel Epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic
Languages, 2021 In this paper, vowel epenthesis in Urban Hijazi Arabic is analysed as a process of gradual structural build-up. Harmonic Serialism, a derivational framework of Optimality Theory, provides the theoretical foundation to illustrate the arguments.
Faisal M. Al-Mohanna
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