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Vowel allophones and the vowel-formant phonetic space [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1983 Through assimilation and other phonetic processes, a language may have more segments on the phonetic surface than in lexical representation. Consider English vowels: nasalized, long, front rounded, and central vowels are all introduced in derivations. Conceivably, then, languages could be much more similar phonetically than phonemically; possibly they ...
Patricia Keating +2 more
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A Comprehensive Vowel Space for Whispered Speech [PDF]
Journal of Voice, 2012 Whispered speech is a relatively common form of communications, used primarily to selectively exclude or include potential listeners from hearing a spoken message. Despite the everyday nature of whispering, and its undoubted usefulness in vocal communications, whispers have received relatively little research effort to date, apart from some studies ...
Sharifzadeh, Hamid Reza +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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Bay Area Spanish: regional sound change in contact languages
Isogloss, 2022 Compression of the vowel space area and reduced vowel dispersion have been observed as features of the California Vowel Shift (CVS, D’Onofrio, Pratt, and Van Hofwegen 2019).
Annie Helms
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Vowel Classification and Vowel Space in Persian
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2015 This article aims to develop an acoustic vowel space in Persian speech. There are several aspects in this survey which make it different from what has been done before. The first is related to the issue of speech material. The need for more natural choice in voice qualities in recent years exhort us not relying on citation form or artificial sound ...
Nasim Esfandiari +2 more
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Comparing human and machine vowel classification [PDF]
, 2007 In this study we compare human ability to identify vowels with a machine learning approach. A perception experiment for 14 Hungarian vowels in isolation and embedded in a carrier word was accomplished, and a C4.5 decision tree was trained on the same ...
Reichel, Uwe D. +3 more
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An Acoustic Analysis of Siwu Vowels
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2013 This paper presents a systematic description of the 11 vowel phonemes (seven oral and four nasal vowels) of Siwu, the language of the people of Akpafu and Lolobi through a spectrographic analysis. The paper determines on scientific basis, the underlying
Pascal Kpodo
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Comparative Analysis of Persian Vowels Features in Congenitally Blind and Sighted Students in Acoustic Phonetics [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2016 Congenital visual impairment deprives children of an important source of information affecting acquired concepts as well as speech production. The primary aim of the research was to evaluate the extent to which blindness may affect vowel features ...
Tahereh Mahmoodi Ahmadabadi +3 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This paper presents a description of the vowel harmony system of Akposso (Uwi), a Kwa language of Ghana and Togo, one of only a handful of Kwa languages with a complete ten vowel system with ATR harmony. However, the tenth vowel, hi, does not function as
Coleen G. Anderson
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