Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"front-vowels"”.
-
Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
… Chain Shift involved the raising of the short front vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in the Cape. …
-
Conditions on (dis)harmony
… examining transparency variation in Hungarian front vowels, and distance-based variation in Hungarian neutral vowel sequences, and in the dissimilative voicing of Embu prefixes. The proposal is that variation results from structural ambiguity within analytic possibilities in the hypothesis …
-
Guidebook for ESL Teachers of Chinese Students
… challenge for Chinese speaking students. The front-vowels in English are the focus of the guidebook. The lessons are designed with common errors of Chinese speakers in mind. Each target sound is compared and contrasted with another sound. The two sounds are sounds that are often confused by …
-
Children's Perception of Conversational and Clear American-English Vowels in Noise
… comprehension, no study has focused on whether vowels uttered in clear speech aid intelligibility for children listeners. In the present study, American-English (AE) speaking children repeated the AE vowels /ε, æ, ɑ, ʌ/ in the nonsense word /gəbVpə/ in phrases produced in conversational and …
-
Trill maintenance and replacement in Chichewa : a study on newsreaders' speech from three radio stations in Malawi
… to the traditional realisation of III after front vowels in contrast with the traditional [I] elsewhere. Labov's sociolinguistic theory and Bell's audience design theory form the basis of this study. Fifteen participants whose speech was recorded for analysis are news readers of both genders, …
-
Acoustic articulatory evidence for quantal vowel categories : the features [low] and [back]
… inventory of sound units that are observed in vowels across languages is strongly influenced by the acoustic properties of the human subglottal system. That is, there is a discrete set of possible vowel features that are constrained by the interaction of the acoustic/articulatory properties of …
-
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
… in progress) for both (N) and (R). Low and mid vowels, prepositions and adjectives, preceding and following sonorants, low-toned syllables, and non-initial position favour deletion of (N). Lhotshampa and Dzongkha speakers delete nasals more; speakers with secondary education preferred the …
-
A New Perspective on Vowel Variation Across the 19th and 20th Centuries in Columbus, OH
… discussion. These patterns 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 …