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Biomechanics and Evolution of the Primate Tongue. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT 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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The Margi vowel system and labiocoronals

Studies in African Linguistics, 1987
The vowel system of Margi, described by Hoffman [1963] as containing three high vowels and one low vowel, is reinterpreted as a two-vowel system with underlying contrast only of high versus low.
Ian Maddieson
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Elision of Glottal Consonants in Kalhori Kurdish Names [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2020
Persian and Kalhori Kurdish, display some differences in the phonetic forms of names containing glottal consonants. This article attempts to analyze the deletion of glottal consonants of post-vocalic /h/ and /ʔ/. The data was collected through interviews
Mehdi Fattahi
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PHONOLOGICAL WORD STRUCTURE COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
The article is devoted to the phonological structure of words of Russian and Chinese languages. With phonological point of view the word as a Central significant unit of language is a sequence of consonants and vowel phonemes.
Alexey N. Aleksakhin
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Helping Turkish EFL Learners with the Pronunciation of Four General British Vowels

ELOPE, 2019
The paper presents a contrastive analysis of Turkish and English with respect to their vowel systems and orthography. The author then focuses on effective ways to teach four General British (GB) vowels, /i:/, /ɪ/, /ʊ/, and /u:/, to twenty Turkish ...
Serkan Şen
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A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony

Glossa, 2019
Bondu-so (Dogon; Mali) vowel harmony exhibits both typologically and theoretically interesting properties. The language’s vocalic system displays surface patterns that implicate a ten-vowel system with an underlying [ATR] contrast at three vowel heights ...
Abbie E. Hantgan, Christopher Ryan Green
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Brownian dynamics for the vowel sounds of human language

Physical Review Research, 2020
We present a model for the evolution of vowel sounds in human languages, in which words behave as Brownian particles diffusing in acoustic space, interacting via the vowel sounds they contain.
J. Burridge, B. Vaux
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A Contrastive Study on Korean and Cia-Cia Language Vowels Based on an Acoustic Experiment

Humaniora, 2021
The Cia-Cia language, which is spoken by around 79.000 people in the Bau-Bau area of Buton Island, does not have its own writing system. In 2009, the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, was approved by the Bau-Bau city government for transcribing Cia-Cia, owing to
Achmad Rio Dessiar
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Vowel training experiments with a computer-based vowel training system [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994
In previous work signal processing algorithms were presented for real-time mapping of vowels to a two-dimensional display for articulation training [Beck and Zahorian, ICASSP-92, II, 241–244]. In this paper, a series of tests designed to evaluate the effectiveness of this display for vowel training are reported. Experiments were conducted with five non-
Stephen A. Zahorian, Neiyer S. Correal
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Intrinsic vowel pitch: a gradient feature of vowel systems

, 2011
This paper investigates the average fundamental frequency of eight peripheral vowels in Belgian Standard Dutch in order to examine whether a vowel gradient exists with respect to Intrinsic Vowel Pitch (IF0). The results show that IF0 exists in Belgian Standard Dutch and amounts to 3.26 semi-tones. It is found that the assumed gradience in the degree of
Turner, P. G., Verhoeven, J.
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