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Evolution of the Burmese Vowel System [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2012 AbstractTibeto‐Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest attested records. This examination of the development of the Burmese vowel system, in the light of early Burmese philological data and comparisons to Old Chinese and Old ...
Hill, Nathan W.
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Afrika und ÜberseeNdam (Eastern Chadic, ISO [ndm]) displays an array of seven or nine surface vowels. However, the distribution and behavior of these vowels, as evidenced from morphophonemic data, shows that the inventory can be reduced to two basic vowels, /ə/ and /a ...
James Roberts
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ON the high non-expanded vowels of Yoruboid
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A current debate going on among Yoruba linguists is the existence and phonological status of the high non-expanded vowels. Indeed while Igala, Isekiri and many Yoruba dialects exhibit a seven-vowel system, other Yoruba dialects exhibit a ·nine-vowel ...
Hounkpati B. Capo
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Vowel harmony in Klao linear and nonlinear analyses
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Klao, a Kru language spoken in Liberia, has a nine-vowel system. Like most other Kru languages, it displays harmony sensitive to pharyngeal constriction (tongue-root retraction).
John Victor Singler
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 Acoustic properties of Hausa vowels and diphthongs from several speakers are investigated. The results show that Hausa is best described as having a five vowel system, where the five basic vowels have the qualities of the long vowels.
Mona Lindau-Webb
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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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Feedforward and feedback control in apraxia of speech: effects of noise masking on vowel production [PDF]
, 2015 PURPOSE: This study was designed to test two hypotheses about apraxia of speech (AOS) derived from the Directions Into Velocities of Articulators (DIVA) model (Guenther et al., 2006): the feedforward system deficit hypothesis and the feedback system ...
Guenther, Frank H. +2 more
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A Descriptive Phonology of the Vowel System of Uvwiẹ
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019 Extant literature on the vowel system of Uvwiẹ shows that the language contrasts 9 oral and 9 nasal vowels, and operates a full vowel harmony system defined by tongue root position.
Philip Oghenesuowho Ekiugbo +1 more
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Phonetic realisations of Madurese vowels and their implications for the Madurese vowel system
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 It has been suggested that Madurese has eight surface vowels [a, ɛ, ə, ɔ, ɤ, i, ɨ, u], but there have been disagreements with regard to the number of its vowel phonemes. The disagreements arise partly because some scholars base their analyses of Madurese
M. Misnadin
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Igede is a language that operates a nine vowel system. It displays harmony system constraint by pharyngeal constriction. Vowels fall into two harmonic sets of [+ATR] and [-ATR] with no overlap. Where we have disharmonic morphemes, our analysis shows that
Michael Abiodun
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