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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Phonetics, Acoustic."”.
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Glides: the problem of definition and analysis, including a discussion of the treatment of semivowel glides in Micronesia and an acoustic phonetic analysis of glides in selected Trukic dialects
The dissertation is primarily concerned with the phonetic definition and analysis of the term 'glide'. Towards the end of the nineteenth century two incompatible notions of the term glide came into use. One notion of glide referred to the phonemic segment
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The phonetic correlates of pharyngealization and pharyngealization spread patterns in Cairene Arabic an acoustic and real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
… and domain (distance). The most prominent acoustic consequence of this articulatory configuration is a lowering of the second formant frequency in surrounding vowels. The extent of the modification in the formant frequency is determined by the length and quality of the vowel. This study …
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Phonological pitch
… the Contiguity Hypothesis is derived from psychoacoustic constraints on discriminating between acoustically similar pitches. Other perceptual and physiological constraints explain patterns in the typology of contour tones and in the interactions of tone with other features. The empirical support …
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ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
… speakers compare in their production of three acoustic correlates of lexical stress in English, namely the relative durations of stressed and unstressed vowels and their relative intensities and fundamental frequency (F0) values. A set of three-syllable words, including cognates and …