The literature on vowel perception contains contradictory claims concerning the use of information from the consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant transitions in vowel recognition. Some studies claim to have found that listeners use vowel formant track shape to compensate for changes in production brought about by coarticulation. Others claim that no evidence for such a compensation could be found...

This paper reports on the articulatory and acoustic correlates of the mid-central vowel (schwa) in an attempt to find out the perimeter of this vowel in both the articulatory and acoustic vowel space of female American English speakers. F1xF2 plots were used to determine the acoustic vowel space. The articulatory vowel space was determined by plotting the maximum vertical displacement of the ja...

A great deal of scholarship has gone into examining monophthongization as a phonological phenomenon occurring within the different chronological stages languages. Some studies have examined it sociolinguistic index dialectal variation while some others studied purely idiosyncratic matter same language variety. Almost all these been descriptive in nature. This study used derivational phonology a...

Assimilation and coarticulation both involve extending the duration of some property or feature. The similarities between these phenomena can be seen by comparing Basque vowel raising with vowel -to -vowel coarticulation in a language like English. In Basque the low vowel Ial is raised to [el following a high vowel. This gives rise to alternations in the form of the definite suffix, I -a/ (de R...

1. Assimilation and coarticulation Assimilation and coarticulation both involve extending the duration of some property or feature. The similarities between these phenomena can be seen by comparing Basque vowel raising and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in a language like English. In Basque the low vowel /a/ is raised to [e] following a high vowel. This gives rise to alternations in the form of ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of vowel context on the recognition of Kannada consonants in quiet for young adults. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 17 young adults with normal hearing in both ears participated in the study. The stimuli included consonant-vowel syllables, spoken by 12 native speakers of Kannada. Consonant recognition task ...

I argue in this paper that vowel length plays no role in the synchronic phonology of Tigrinya: processes affecting vowels should be treated in featural terms only. The evidence in favor of synchronic vowel length is weak, and stronger evidence favors an analysis in which vowel length is phonologically irrelevant. While some researchers have made use of synchronic vowel length to account for ost...