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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"vowel length"”.
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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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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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Lexical, Pragmatic and Positional Effects on Prosody in Two Dialects of Croatian and Serbian: An Acoustic Study
… the Belgrade dialect has a pitch-accent and vowel length contrast while the Zagreb dialect does not. Lexical pitch-accent and vowel length contrasts are found to influence the expression of pragmatic focus: the phonemic contrasts are enlarged in narrow focus. Tonal crowding in the …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… study addresses the question of how German vowels are perceived and produced by Polish learners of German as a Foreign Language. It comprises three main experiments: a discrimination experiment, a production experiment, and an identification experiment. With the exception of the …
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Speling "Successful" Sucesfuly: Statistical Learning in Spelling
… they wrote down its best spelling. We found a vowel length effect: more doubling after short vowels than long vowels) that was moderated by spelling ability: better spellers were more influenced by vowel length) and language background. Americans had the largest vowel length effect and Tamil …
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The production and perception of Libyan Arabic stress patterns by English speaking learners: A comparison with native speakers
… structural effects (e.g. syllable structure, vowel quality, syllable position or class) have consequences on how the learners perceive and produce stress and on how they use this information in assigning stress. The study found that if the stress patterns match in the L1 and L2, and they …
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Phonetic and Functional Bases of Syllable Weight for Stress Assignment
… counts as heavy only in languages with phonemic vowel length synchronically or historically; and CVC counts as heavy only in three positions---initial, penultimate, antepenultimate---where positional lengthening was reported (Oller 1973, Klatt 1975).
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An acoustic phonetic analysis of African American English: A comparative study of two dialects
… (NCS). I analyze these samples to determine if vowel quality and vowel duration are consistently and predictably varied between the two dialects. Labov's Chain Shift Principles are used as the context for the results.</p> <p>In my analysis, I find that both vowel quality and duration are …
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Phonology-Morphology Interaction in Abha Arabic: Vowel Processes in Stratal Optimality Theory
… The main motivations are providing an account of vowel processes in Abha Arabic and testing Stratal OT’s ability to account for vowel epenthesis, vowel lengthening, and vowel shortening. The Stratal OT framework is put to the test to see if it can account for opacity, which proved to be …
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Vowel lengthening in northern Italy: A case for segmental and prosodic optimization
… of historical and synchronic processes of vowel lengthening in many languages can be motivated as a way of optimizing segmental and prosodic structures. The northern Italian dialects are chosen as the main pool of data for the study of vowel lengthening and its conditionings, since in a …
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Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech
… speech of native Spanish speakers: intonation, vowel length, stress, voice onset time (VOT), or segmental accuracy. Nineteen native English speaking listeners rated speech samples from 7 native English speakers and 15 native Spanish speakers for comprehensibility and degree of foreign accent. …
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Aspects of Pulaar Non-Linear Phonology
… and general notions about Pulaar. We give the vowel as well as consonant inventory of the language and a general review of the morphology and syntax of Pulaar. Because many processes discussed in this dissertation make reference, in one way or another to the syllable, chapter two is going to …
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Aspects of Kono phonology
… of such an inventory are discussed. The vowel-consonant dichotomy is discussed in Chapter 2. So also are the problems relating to vowel length, dissimilar vowels in sequence, and vowel nasalisation. Chapter 3 deals with problems posed by the distribution of consonant segments, …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… the study reveals that Mbunda has a five vowel system with twenty one consonants. In order to identify the distinctiveness of consonants and vowels, a minimal pair test is conducted. Arising from the minimal pairs, the study has discovered that Mbunda is one of the few Bantu languages with …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… the study reveals that Mbunda has a five vowel system with twenty one consonants. In order to identify the distinctiveness of consonants and vowels, a minimal pair test is conducted. Arising from the minimal pairs, the study has discovered that Mbunda is one of the few Bantu languages with …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… the study reveals that Mbunda has a five vowel system with twenty one consonants. In order to identify the distinctiveness of consonants and vowels, a minimal pair test is conducted. Arising from the minimal pairs, the study has discovered that Mbunda is one of the few Bantu languages with …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… the study reveals that Mbunda has a five vowel system with twenty one consonants. In order to identify the distinctiveness of consonants and vowels, a minimal pair test is conducted. Arising from the minimal pairs, the study has discovered that Mbunda is one of the few Bantu languages with …
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The phonology of spoken Iraqi Arabic from the functional point of view
… 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. Chapter Ten …
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The phonetic correlates of pharyngealization and pharyngealization spread patterns in Cairene Arabic an acoustic and real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
… of the second formant frequency in surrounding vowels. The extent of the modification in the formant frequency is determined by the length and quality of the vowel. This study uses real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) to investigate the acoustic and articulatory correlates of …
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A Phonological Sketch of the Kufo Language
… documentation to investigate the consonants, vowels, and tones of Kufo, based on speech data collected with one participant, and analysed using qualitative and quantitative methods. This study contributes to crosslinguistic understandings of phonological typology and to the knowledge of the …
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