. This study explores these questions through acoustic analysis of reduced vowels in the speech of twelve American English speakers. The results show that there is a fundamental distinction between the mid central [´] vowel that can occur in unstressed word-final position (e.g. in Rosa), and high reduced

When an English word with a postvocalic word-final stop is adapted to Korean, a vowel is variably inserted after the final stop. Vowel insertion in this position is puzzling not only because of its variability but also because of the fact that it is not motivated by the native phonology in any

long /a/. Therefore, an acoustical analysis of contrasting words like Saar- “Saar ” (river in Germany), sah- “saw”, sehr- “very ” and Visier- “visor ” has been carried out by recording three male and three female speakers of Northern German. We analysed the frequencies of the first three formants

Abstract. Every word-initial and word-final letter cluster, or ngram, that occurred in 30 or more different words in one million words of Tunning text is listed along with the number of different words and the total number of words it appeared in. The relation of this list to other counts

The purpose of this paper is to account for the alternation between [t] and [s] in the word-final position of loanwords in terms of the ranking of faithfulness constraint with respect to other markedness constraints (McCarthy and Prince

This study examines Akan nasals at different word positions, especially the alveolar and velar nasals at word-final positions, so that both Akan and English language teachers could apply them in teaching. It finds out which dialect(s) of Akan use(s) the velar nasal [ŋ] at the word-final position

The adaptation of English word-final /s / in words that are borrowed into Korean presents an interesting perceptual match-up inasmuch as Korean contrasts two types of voiceless fricatives, “lax ” /s / and “tense ” /s’/, either of which, depending on context, may serve as the rendition of English /s

substituted for another. Method: Participants were 11 typically developing children ages 1;5–2;7 (years;months) who were from monolingual English-speaking homes. Consonant clusters in both word-initial and word-final position were elicited using a picture identification task. Results: Although previous

leads to a number of complications in the stress system of English, notably Elfner’s (2007) proposal for stress assignment which is sensitive to the place of articulation of word-final stops. Elfner (2007) is the most recent treatment of phenomena noted by Ross (1972). Ross observes a contrast

flaps and non-flaps in word-final position. We examine kinematic and acoustic data for these articulations in phrase-final and phrase-medial positions and in falling- and level-stress contours. It is shown that a discrepancy exists between acoustic and articulatory durational patterning – while acoustic