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Hong Kong English: phonological features

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
The aim of the paper is to present phonological features of Hong Kong English, which is a variety of New English. I examine features of the sound system (vowel and consonantal systems), characteristics of stress, rhythm, intonation, and phonological ...
Irina-Ana Drobot
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Perception and categorisation of vowels in German and English by Chinese university learners

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Accurate vowel perception is essential for effective communication and is a fundamental aspect of language learning. Vowels are important in any language because they carry important phonetic and phonological information that is essential for ...
Yihan, Li
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Tratti binari e tratti monovalenti nella rappresentazione delle vocali

open access: yesAnnali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2019
The paper deals with the nature of segmental primitives. Although the conception of features as binary units has dominated phonological literature for decades, it has been challenged in convincing ways by the alternative theory according to which ...
Laura Bafile
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Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1990
Internal factors involving phonotactic asymmetries and irregular morphological alternations suggest that final */uu/ in Hausa historically lowered to /oo/ when the preceding syllable contained /aa/, e.g. *kwaacfoo 'frog' < *kwaacfuu.
Paul Newman
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A machine learning approach to predicting perceived partner support from relational and individual variables

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Perceiving one’s partner as supportive is considered essential for relationships, but we know little about which factors are central to predicting perceived partner support. Traditional statistical techniques are ill-equipped to compare a large number of
Kumashiro, Madoka   +3 more
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Identification of Perceptual Phonetic Training Gains in a Second Language Through Deep Learning

open access: yesAI
Background/Objectives: While machine learning has made substantial strides in pronunciation detection in recent years, there remains a notable gap in the literature regarding research on improvements in the acquisition of speech sounds following a ...
Georgios P. Georgiou
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Acoustic properties of vowels in Upper Necaxa Totonac

open access: yes, 2019
Upper Necaxa Totonac is a Totonacan language spoken in the Necaxa River valley in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State, Mexico. While the Totonacan languages historically have three phonemic vowel qualities, the Upper Necaxa system consists of five vowels ...
Tucker, Benjamin V.   +1 more
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Het Vriezenveens : Waar komt het vandaan? Waar gaat het heen?

open access: yesBrünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016
The Vriezenveen Dialect. Where Does it Come from? Where Does it Go to? The village of Vriezenveen (not far from Almelo in Twente, an eastern region of the Netherlands) has a dialect that differs from its neighbouring dialects in a number of features. For
Cor van Bree
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A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/a e o/), which may diphthongize in word-boundary vowel sequences.
Laura Colantoni   +4 more
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Vowels and their modifications

open access: yes, 2023
<p><i>Vowels are an essential component of speech sounds, forming the core of every syllable in a word. They are produced with an open vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely without any significant obstruction.
Teshaboyeva Nafisa Zubaydulla kizi   +1 more
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