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Unmasking the Bantu Orthographic Vowels

, 2017
Bantu vowel phonemes are reflexes of the Proto-Bantu seven-vowel system /*i *ɪ * ε‎ *a *ɔ *ʊ *u/. While lax high vowels were supplanted in some systems because of vowel mergers in the first two degrees /*i *ɪ/ and /*u *ʊ/, lax mid vowels / ε‎ ɔ/ are ...
Joash J. Gambarage
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Attachment styles, negotiation of goal conflict, and perceived partner support during COVID-19

Due to the pandemic, people have been stuck indoors with their partners for months. Instead of being able to rely on multiple sources of support, many couples have to rely on each other more.
Vowels, Laura Marika, Carnelley, Katherine   +1 more
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The importance of word-final vowel duration for non-native portuguese speaker identification by means of Support Vector Machines

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2014
This article studies the acoustic characteristics of some oral vowels in tonic syllables of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and which acoustic features are important for classifying native versus non-native speakers of BP.
Suzanne Franks, Rommel Barbosa
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Discrimination of Degrees of Foreign Accent across Different Speakers

Languages
Second-language learners often encounter communication challenges due to a foreign accent (FA) in their speech, influenced by their native language (L1).
Rubén Pérez-Ramón
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Reaction time for correct identification of vowels in consonant-vowel syllables and of vowel segments

JASA Express Letters
Reaction times for correct vowel identification were measured to determine the effects of intertrial intervals, vowel, and cue type. Thirteen adults with normal hearing, aged 20–38 years old, participated. Stimuli included three naturally produced syllables (/ba/ /bi/ /bu/) presented whole or segmented to isolate the formant transition or static ...
Mark, Hedrick, Kristen, Thornton
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Noises and nuisances in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European linguistics

, 2010
It is gratifying to see that Jay Jasanoff has now (2004) adopted my theory that "the Balto-Slavic acute was a kind of stød or broken tone" (p. 172), which I have been advocating since 1973.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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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 instances of II u/-determined harmony. The evolution of this change is described.
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Regional variation in South African English : a socio-phonetic comparison of young white speakers in Cape Town and Durban

, 2011
This research has been designed to investigate regional differences in a variety of South African English known as General South African English, between the White communities of Durban and Cape Town respectively.
Wileman, Bruce
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Hausa vowels and dipthongs

, 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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Palindromic Vowels and Tautonymic Vowels

, 2019
Lists of words that contain sets of palindroms and tautonyms made by their ...
Thorpe, Susan
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