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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"diphthongs"”.
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The diphthongs of Spanish: Stress, syllabification, and alternations
The intricate system of Spanish diphthongs has generated much discussion in Spanish phonology as well as in the development of numerous theories of syllable structure. In this dissertation, it is my claim that many of the difficulties posed by the diphthongs of Spanish can be dispensed with if we …
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Tohono O'odham syllable weight: Descriptive, theoretical and applied aspects
… these linguistic aspects. I propose that O'odham diphthongs are categorized into two groups based on their weight: light (monomoraic) diphthongs and heavy (bimoraic) diphthongs. This is opposed to generally understood diphthong classifications (i.e., falling vs. rising). My conclusion is supported …
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The Way South Vietnamese Pronounce English
… comprises detailed analysis of the vowels, diphthongs, consonants and consonant clusters pronounced by the subjects. The bulk of this chapter could have been contained in an appendix. A reader may choose to read only the first few pages and then go on to chapter 6. Chapter 6 is a summary of …
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El diptongo / hiato como rasgo contrastivo: un estudio perceptual con los hablantes de herencia de español
… hablantes de herencia del español. In Spanish, diphthongs and hiatuses represent two distinct types of vocalic segments (Schwegler, Kempff, & Ameal-Guerra, 2010). However, there are examples of words in which the pronunciation of the vocalic sequence as either a diphthong or hiatus serves as a …
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Speech sound acquisition and phonological error patterns in child speakers of Syrian Arabic: a normative study
… and these mainly related to the production of diphthongs. The two diphthongs which were studied did not appear in the children’s speech samples until the age of 5:0-5:5, but they did not reach the acquisition criterion. For the consonants, the results suggest that there is a gradual development …
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Speech perception in children with reading disabilities
… to stops and liquids. For vowels, perception of diphthongs and tense vowels was mostly intact for both groups. Confusions mostly occurred among certain “front” and “back” lax vowels. With the purpose of developing an automatic diagnostic tool with confusion pattern, methods were explored to rank …
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The phonology of spoken Iraqi Arabic from the functional point of view
… status, of-[j] and [w],[tj] and [d3], diphthongs, vowel length, and vocalic lipposture (presenting previous views as well as my own views on them). Chapter Nine deals with the SIA phonemes and their realizations, showing the oppositions whereby each phoneme is phonetipally realized. …
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A New Perspective on Vowel Variation Across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
… include the parallel fronting of the back diphthongs /uw/ and /ow/; the conditioned tensing and raising of /ae/, also known as split short-a system raising; and the Third Dialect Shift, a pattern of covariant vowel movement in which the low vowels /a/ and /ae/ are involved in a backing …