A multi-method approach to correlate identification in acoustic data: The case of Media Lengua
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 This study of Media Lengua examines production differences between mid and high vowels in order to identify the major correlates that distinguish these vowel types.
Jesse Stewart, Sky Onosson
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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.
Mády, Katalin, Reichel, Uwe D.
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Vowel harmony and vowel merger in Agoi
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 This paper describes the vowel harmony system and patterns of vowel merger in Agoi, an Upper Cross language. Data indicate that a once fully operative system of vowel harmony has now been generally restricted to the non-high vowels, with a few residual ...
Shirley Yul-Ifode
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Diachronic Typology of Philippine Vowel Systems [PDF]
, 1973 It has been fairly well established (Dempwolff 1934, 1937, 1939]) that Proto- Austronesian (PAN) had a four-vowel system, usually symbolized by *i, *e, *a, and *u.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Vowel Production in Mandarin Accented English and American English: Kinematic and Acoustic Data from the Marquette University Mandarin Accented English Corpus [PDF]
, 2013 Few electromagnetic articulography (EMA) datasets are publicly available, and none have focused systematically on non-native accented speech. We introduce a kinematic-acoustic database of speech from 40 (gender and dialect balanced) participants ...
Berry, Jeffrey J. +2 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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The Effects of Maturation and Dyslexia Risk on Neural Speech-Sound Encoding and Discrimination at Preschool Stage. [PDF]
Eur J NeurosciEvent‐related potentials (ERPs) to a repeating pseudoword and mismatch responses (MMRs) to five deviances were recorded at 4–5 years and compared with a previously reported follow‐up at 28 months, in subgroups with versus without familial dyslexia risk (n ~ 150).
Navarrete-Arroyo S +3 more
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Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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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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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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