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F1 and center of gravity interplay in the maintenance of phonological height within a statistical model of a communal grammar: the case of Foodo [ATR] acoustics
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper presents the notion of an idealized or communal grammar as a statistical model of mode, mean or median as emerging from a representative number of a ...
Preliminary tone analysis of possessed nouns in Chicahuaxtla Trique
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Chicahuaxtla Trique is one of the Trique languages spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. Among three Trique languages, Chicahuaxtla Trique has the most complicated tone system ...
A perception study on the third tone in Mandarin Chinese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This experimental study examines the role of the shape of the pitch contour in the perception of the Mandarin Chinese tone 3.2 A set of stimuli was constructed by ...
A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN PAME
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)
This dissertation describes the phonology and morphology of Northern Pame, an Otomanguean language of Central Mexico. Furthermore, it explains the grammatical relationship of these domains from an Optimality Theoretic ...
PALATALIZATION IN ALBANIAN: AN ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF STOPS AND AFFRICATES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
Palatalization is a very common process cross-linguistically; it has been widely attested in both Indo-European (e.g. Slavic) and non-Indo-European languages (e.g. Bantu and Chinese). Palatalization can be broken down into ...
Review of The Phonology of Portuguese
(LINGUIST List, 2001-06-09)
As noted by its publisher in LINGUIST 12.390, The
Phonology of Portuguese (TPP) provides "an accurate
description of the phonological system of Portuguese"-referencing
both European and Brazilian varieties, and
seeks ...