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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Phonetics and Phonology"”.
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The phonetics and phonology of tonal systems
… identity to conveying meaning through phrasing and accentuation. Previously, linguistic theories of intonation and tone which have sought a unifying account for tonal phenomena have not defined a clear and systematic relation between phonological representations and phonetic output in terms of …
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The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness
… investigates place feature restrictions in oral and nasal stop consonants with a special focus on the asymmetrical behavior of coronal and noncoronal stops. Two conflicting patterns of place restriction in outputs are attested: coronal unmarkedness and coronal markedness. This thesis shows that …
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The phonetics and phonology of tone and intonation in Japanese
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.
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The phonetics and phonology of tone mapping in a constraint-based approach
This dissertation concerns both phonetic and phonological aspects of tone mapping in various Chinese languages. The central issue addressed is the role of contrast and positional prominence and neutralization in the realization of tone. The inventory of tonal contrasts constrains the outputs of …
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The morphology of central Shona : with prefatory chapters on the phonetics and phonology
… prefatory chapters which deal with Central Shona phonetics and phonology. Of the Central Shona dialect-groups I have taken Zezuru as my standpoint. It is true that the main differences between the dialect-groups lie in phonetics and vocabulary and not in morphology; nevertheless the work has a …
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Spanish-Speaking Students Perceptions of EFL as Demonstrated in Writing for an Undergraduate English Phonetics and Phonology Course in Bogotá Colombia
… students for the undergraduate course of English Phonetics and Phonology taught at a university in Bogota, Colombia in four cohorts. Using qualitative content analysis (QCA), this study analyzes students' meanings and interpretations of the foreign language in their written ideas that emerged in …
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A phonological description of Wichí: The dialect of Misión La Paz, Salta, Argentina
… Wichí is found in the Salta, Chaco, and Formosa provinces of Argentina, as well as in southeastern Bolivia. Wichí is an endangered language, with speakers numbering c. 25,000 (although estimates vary greatly). This study aims to contribute to the documentation of Wichí and to our …
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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
The major articulatory differences between plain and pharyngealized speech sounds in Arabic are a secondary posterior constriction and a lowered tongue body implicated in the production of the latter type. This articulatory configuration, pharyngealization, affects neighboring segments according to …
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Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish
… plays an important role in both the production and perception of speech. This study represents a move away from the laboratory speech examined in previous, related studies on prosodic phrasing in Swedish, since a spontaneous, Southern Swedish speech material is investigated. The study is, …
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Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study
… in pronunciation that is associated with fast and/or conversational speech is <em>massive reduction</em>, in which entire syllables are deleted. We focus on a subtype of massive reduction, pretonic vowel deletion, where the vowel in an unstressed syllable is deleted and the flanking consonants …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
… one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for inflexional suffixes, which occur in word final position. There are three basic allophones of aspirated segments: (i) post-aspirated; (ii) unaspirated, (iii) pre-aspirated, with pre-aspiration showing …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
… second language (L2), it has been noted that the phonetics and phonology of an L2 can be difficult for learners to acquire and many sound structures from a learner’s first language (L1) are transferred into the L2, resulting in pronunciation patterns that diverge from the native norms. Pervasive …
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The production and perception of domain-initial strengthening in Seoul, Busan, and Ulsan Korean
… & Hsu, 2004). DIS is defined as temporal and/or spatial enhancement of segmental articulation in the initial position of prosodic domains. Broadly, this dissertation serves as a detailed case study of the production patterns and the perceptual benefits of this phenomenon. The recent …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
… examine the relationship between prosody and syntax of natural languages, while also addressing the role of syntactic phrase length, with the ultimate goal of using prosody to improve parsing.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines the effect of syntactic phrase length on prosody in double center …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary ambiguity of the first prepositional phrase (PP1: <em>in the drawer</em>), which tends to be interpreted initially as the goal argument of the verb <em>cram</em>. If the …
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