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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Vowel raising"”.
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Some aspects of assimilation in Southern Sotho with special reference to vowel raising
This dissertation treats Vowel Raising as a part of Assimilation in Southern Sotho. Assimilation as a concept in any language is a broad concept that includes consonantal and vowel- influences that have been juxtaposed. The influence may be between two vowels in juxtaposition i.e. [i] next to [e] …
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Dialect Variation and Change in Eastern Arabia: Al-Ahsa Dialect
… feature. The second variable is imala (vowel raising) in the feminine ending in the unbound state, of which lowering is the innovative variant. Data analysis shows that the traditional rounding of (ɑ:), as well as, vowel raising in the feminine ending are undergoing change in the speech …
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Thodisiso ya tshanduko dza mibvumo dzi bveledzwa nga pfalandothe kha Tshivenda
… phonological processes involving Tshivenḓa vowels. The Tshivenḓa phonological processes involving vowels under this study include vowel elision/deletion, vowel epenthesis, vowel coalescence, vowel nasalisation, vowel harmony, vowel raising and glide formation. In this regard, consonants are …
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The Sociophonetics of Vowel Height: A Study of Variation in Tehran Persian
… employs the variationist method to investigate vowel height variation (VHV) in Tehran Persian (TP). Viewing spoken TP as a continuum between Vernacular Tehran Persian (VTP) and Bookish Persian (BP), this study examines how VHV systematically differs between VTP and BP. Sociolinguistic interviews …
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Stress and Syncope in Tobruq Arabic an Eastern Libyan Dialect: A Stratal OT Account
… stress patterns and their assignment, as well as vowel syncope and the contrasting behaviour of epenthetic vowel insertion. The former processes are shown to be affected by two morphological factors: the type of word class, and the type of morphological ending that attaches to a monomorphemic …