Internal and external motivation in phonetic change: dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift. [PDF]
, 2004 This article is a contribution to the debate about the primacy of internal versus external factors in language change (Farrar and Jones 2002; Thomason and Kaufman 1988).
Torgersen, Eivind, Kerswill, Paul
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Vokale im Kiezdeutschen: Eine phonetische Analyse der Vokalquantität und -qualität [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 Kiezdeutsch is a variety of German which emerged in in multi-ethnic and multilingual urban neighbourhoods (Wiese 2009: 782). This German multiethnolect shows specific morphosyntactic alternations in comparison to Standard German, for example the usage of
Susanne Rummel +2 more
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Fonetitsheskaja struktura slova i tipy padezhnyh allomorfov v komi jazyke. Word Phonetic Structure and Allomorphic Case Endings in Komi; pp. 9-22 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 Allomorphic variation of Komi case endings depends on: (1) whether the Âfinal sound of the word is (a) a vowel or a consonant or (b) a velar or a palatal sound, and (2) the quality of the vowel of the preceding syllable.
Galina Nekrasova
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Discrimination of English Vowel Contrasts by Persian Speakers Based on Perceptual Assimilation Model [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 The present study addressed the perception of English vowel contrasts /i-I/ and /u-U/ by Persian speakers in light of the theoretical assumptions underlying the Perceptual Assimilation Model.
Neda Bigdeli, Vahid Sadeghi
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Analysis of phonetic/phonological perception of the English monophthongs at tertiary level [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017 The paper discusses phonological competences of students of the first and fourth year of the Department of English Language and Literature at Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica. Students ability to identify relevant elements of the English vowel
Dančetović Nikola N.
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Vowel-internal cues to vowel quality and prominence in speech perception [PDF]
Phonetica, 2023 Abstract This study examines how variation in F0 and intensity impacts the perception of American English vowels. Both properties vary intrinsically as a function of vowel features in the speech production literature, raising the question of the perceptual impact of each. In addition to considering listeners’ interpretation of either cue
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Vowel quality in spontaneous speech: what makes a good vowel? [PDF]
5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), 1998 Clear speech is characterised by longer segmental durations and less target undershoot which results in more extreme spectral features. This paper deals with the clarity of vowels produced in spontaneous speech in a large corpus of task-oriented dialogues.
Aylett, Matthew, Turk, Alice
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Speaker discrimination as a function of vowel realization: does focus affect perception?
Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 The acoustic-phonetic characteristics of speech sounds are influenced by their linguistic position in the syllable or sentence. Because of acoustic-phonetic differences between different speech sounds, sounds vary in the amount of speaker information ...
Willemijn Heeren +2 more
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A comparison of English, Acehnese, and Indonesian monophthongs
Studies in English Language and Education, 2023 Foreign language learners tend to approximate the quality of non-native vowels to their existing vowel systems. This phenomenon becomes more complicated in learners who already have more than one vowel system in their linguistic repertoire. When learning
Tanzir Masykar +2 more
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An Acoustic Account of Turkic Vowels [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 1. INTRODUCTION The Turkish language is mainly spoken in Azerbaijan and Iran (Johanson 2010). After Farsi as the official language, Turkish, with approximately 15–20 million speakers, has the most speakers in Iran (Crystal 2010).
Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi
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