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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"vowel shift"”.
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
The South African 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 …
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The Southern Accent and "Bad English": A Comparative Perceptual Study of the Conceptual Network between Southern Linguistic Features and Identity
… the phonetic features, such as the Southern Vowel Shift, deletion of /t/, and realization of (ING) as [-ɪn], were regarded as merely an accent and interpreted as laid-back. In addition, Southern American English was associated with politeness and humility. For some features, especially …
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An acoustic phonetic analysis of African American English: A comparative study of two dialects
… dominant coexisting dialect, the Northern Cities Shift (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 …
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
… or absence of the proposed African American Vowel Shift. To do so, I introduced a novel reading passage specifically designed to elicit naturalistic AAE speech, read by hundreds of participants across the US, and apply traditional sociophonetic methods, spatial statistics, and clustering …
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Agreement, Information and Time in Multiagent Systems
… the linguistic phenomenon of the Great English Vowel Shift (GEVS) -- a shift in the pronunciation of certain vowels that took place between 1450 and 1750. We define a simple algorithm and through extensive simulation show that a vowel shift could have occurred if a new population of linguistic …
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Tongue Root Harmony And Vowel Contrast In Northeast Asian Languages
… history by demonstrating that the original vowel harmony in these languages was in fact based on an RTR, rather than a palatal, contrast, and provides a formal account for the development of individual vowel systems within the framework of Contrastive Hierarchy (Dresher, 2009). Following the …
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An acoustic sociophonetic study of three London vowels
… of the acoustics of the three short vowels in the DRESS, TRAP and STRUT lexical sets (Wells 1982) in London. The vowels have been reported by a number of phoneticians and variationists to have shifted in particular directions in Received Pronunciatioin (RP) and London English during …
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… analysis shows the ways in which Louisvillians shift between Southern and non-Southern identities, in the active and agentive expression of their amplified awareness of belonging brought about by their position on the border.
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When nasal is more than nasal: the oral articulation of nasal vowels in two dialects of French
… of the realizations of three oral and nasal vowel pairs /a/-/˜ɑ/, /ɛ/-/˜ɛ/, and /o/-/˜ɔ/ recorded from 11 Northern Metropolitan French (NMF) and two Quebecois French (QF) female speakers in laboratory settings. Using simultaneous acoustic and articulatory information related to the lingual …