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Phonetic Grounding and Phonology: Vowel Backness Harmony and Vowel Height Harmony
… that phonological approaches that model vowel harmony as spreading or agreement of features are inadequate. Within those models, there is no prediction that VBH and VHH should be fundamentally different. Typological patterns of harmony are influenced by phonetic processes of speech. It is …
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A Psychophysical Study of Vowel Formants
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Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu
This thesis presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust factual generalization that holds true of alternations in different types of …
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Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean.
In this study, I will try to show that vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean can be described as a (-ATR) spreading rule. The assumption that the harmonizing feature is (-ATR) is based on Hall and Hall (1980) in the case of Nez Perce, and on Hwang's formant analysis (1983) in the case of Korean. By …
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Japanese Learners’ Recognition of English Vowel Phonemes
… because of the difference in the number of vowels in the two languages: while there are 5 in Japanese, there are as many as 20 in English. In this research, therefore, the issue of erroneous recognition of English vowel phonemes by Japanese leaners of English (JLEs) is focussed on. Despite …
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Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian
… large set of Hungarian nominal stems whose last vowel alternates with zero in certain contexts (Vago (1980), Siptár & Törkenczy (2000)): e.g. bokor [bokor], bokr-ok [bokr-ok]. I argue that the mechanism underlying these alternations is syncope, departing in this from earlier work (Vago (1980), …
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A study of vowel-sound intensities in singing.
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Correlations Between Vowel Lengths and Emotion in Narratives
… looks at the relationship between emotion and vowel length in spontaneous speech, specifically during narratives. It is hypothesized that during emotionally-laden speech, vowel length will be longer in duration than when in non-emotional speech. Data is drawn from the Univerisity of California, …
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Employing the Acoustic Change Complex for Vowel Discrimination
… present study addressed the effects of level and vowel contrast type on ACC amplitudes and latencies. Nineteen normally hearing adults were tested with vowel tokens, /a/, /i/, /o/, and /u/, of 500 ms duration presented at 2/s, in an oddball paradigm at 40 and 70 dBA in the sound field. The ACC was …
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Computer Analysis and Synthesis of a Sung Vowel
… on digital analysis and synthesis of sung vowels while examining in detail the analysis and synthesis of the sung vowel "a" as in father. A random vocal sample is compared to published data in an attempt to indicate areas needing further clarification. A detailed analysis of amplitude …
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The Production and Perception of Vowel Height and Duration
High vowels are generally shorter than low vowels: there is a positive correlation between F1 and duration in English and cross-linguistically (Heffner 1937; Elert 1964; Äimä, 1918). This paper argues that the cross-linguistic height/duration correlation might be explained perceptually: high vowels …
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Learning novel vowel contrasts: experimental methods in classroom applications
… reports on perceptual training of tense-lax vowel contrasts in the context of an advanced-level ESL pronunciation class for Chinese and Korean international graduate students. The vowel contrasts were trained under four training paradigms designed to examine the effects of variation due to …
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A static model of the tongue during vowel articulation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1965. M.S.
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A theory of consonant cluster perception and vowel epenthesis
… concerns cluster-dependent asymmetries in vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation and in non-native cluster perception. The central argument is that auditory factors affect the relative perceptual similarity between consonant clusters and the corresponding epenthesis forms, which in turn …
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Vowel production variation in college students based on social integration
… such as Greek life, influence the variation of vowel productions in young adults? The overarching purpose of the study was to explore how immersion in new social groups leads to exemplar shifts in college students. The data from this study was collected from 30 in-state female students at The …
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