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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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Intrinsic vowel pitch: a gradient feature of vowel systems [PDF]
, 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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The Vowel System of Korebaju [PDF]
Interspeech 2019, 2019 Korebaju [kòrèβáhɨ̀] (ISO 639-3: coe) is a Western Tukanoan language from the South Western part of Colombia. A study conducted in 2017 and 2018 with six native speakers (3 female and 3 male) shows that Korebaju has an inventory of 17 consonants /p, t, k, pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, β, ɸ, s, h, t ͡ ʃ, m, n, ɲ, ʰm, ʰŋ, r/ and 6 oral vowels /i, e, a, o, u, ɨ/, 6 nasal ...
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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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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 ...
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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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