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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Vowel Inventory"”.
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Andalusian vocalism and related processes
"The vowel systems of languages differ in their inventories and contrastive features. The actual phonetic realization of the phonemic vowel inventory depends on a variety of factors involving the overall phonological and morphological organization of a given language. These factors may serve to …
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Two aspects of Sliammon phonology: Glide/Obstruent alternation and vowel length
… alternation and the issue of phonemic vowel length. In this thesis an analysis of these issues is presented within a non-linear framework, adopting as a point of departure the model of feature geometry proposed by McCarthy (1988). Other theoretical components of the analysis include …
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Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
… some of Hale's reconstructions. In addition, the vowel system of the family is reconstructed, this dissertation suggesting that the modern vowel systems may have evolved from a much smaller vowel inventory than is found in the modern languages. The analysis and reconstruction points to intricate …
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
… languages tend to display stress-induced vowel quality variation. In some languages the effect is very salient, resulting in a smaller vowel inventory in unstressed syllables and stress-conditioned rule-governed vowel alternations within paradigms (phonological vowel reduction). Other …
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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 grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
… the typologically rare plain bilabial trill. The vowel inventory is also relatively large compared to other related languages, with eight contrastive vowels. The description of nominals and noun phrases in Ahamb spans four chapters. Nouns in Ahamb are classified as common, personal and local. They …
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Quantification of first language transfer effect on second language acquisition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01