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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Chain shift"”.
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
The South African Chain Shift involved the raising of the short front vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in …
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An acoustic phonetic analysis of African American English: A comparative study of two dialects
… dominant coexisting dialect, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). I analyze these samples to determine if vowel quality and vowel duration are consistently and predictably varied between the two dialects. Labov's Chain Shift Principles are used as the context for the results.</p> <p>In my analysis, I …
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When nasal is more than nasal: the oral articulation of nasal vowels in two dialects of French
… to [o]. I found evidence of a counter-clockwise chain shift in the realizations of the three nasal vowels. However, I found evidence that the oral articulatory contributions to this chain shift are different for the three vowels: for [˜ɛ], it is due primarily to a lower, retracted tongue …
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Contrast preservation and constraints on individual phonetic variation
Ferdinand de Saussure, one of the founders of modern Linguistics, described language as a system where everything holds together. Regarding the sounds of language, this has led to the current view that the phonology of a language consists of a complex system of relations between contrastive …
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An acoustic sociophonetic study of three London vowels
… number of phoneticians and variationists to have shifted in particular directions in Received Pronunciatioin (RP) and London English during the course of the 20th century; the directions of the movements, however, seem to be rather complicated. Moreover, there have been relatively fewer …
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A New Perspective on Vowel Variation Across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
… short-a system raising; and the Third Dialect Shift, a pattern of covariant vowel movement in which the low vowels /a/ and /ae/ are involved in a backing chain shift, and the front vowels /E/ and /I/ are involved in a backing parallel shift. Each of these patterns of vowel variation are …