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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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Some speculations on the vowel system of classical Arabic [PDF]
, 1996 In this paper I consider the vowel combinations of Classical Arabic. I discuss the possibiIity that vowel combinations which are not considered to have been standardly permitted in Classical Arabic might have occurred in certain ancient dialects.
Dickins, J
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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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Quantity distinction in the Hungarian vowel system - just theory or also reality? [PDF]
, 2007 According to most current theories, the Hungarian vowel system involves 14 vowels that correspond to seven vowel pairs, each differentiated by quantity.
Reichel, Uwe D. +3 more
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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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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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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 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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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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