Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Author "Silva, David J."

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    • The Acoustic Correlates Of ATR Harmony In Seven- And Nine-vowel African Languages: A Phonetic Inquiry Into Phonological Structure 

      Starwalt, Coleen Grace Anderson (Linguistics, 2008-09-17)
      This study compares eleven Niger-Congo languages with [ATR] harmony and seeks to determine especially whether the acoustic properties of the "voice quality" differences associated with [ATR] in nine-vowel languages, such ...

    • A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Vocalic Nucleus In Modern Russian 

      Benham, Brett Alan (Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
      This instrumental acoustic study investigates coarticulation as the source of palatalization in Modern Standard Russian. This study posits that the nucleus is bifurcated, with nodes for a pre-kernel and a kernel. At the ...

    • Phonological Processes In Contemporary Spoken Bulgarian 

      Radkova, Zdravka (Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
      This study investigates a number of phonological processes observed in the speech of 24 educated Bulgarian speakers. The speech of all subjects was recorded during 30 minute interviews conducted in 2004. Three speech styles ...

    • A Revised Phonology Of Kabiye Segments And Tone 

      Padayodi, Cecile Mamalinani (Linguistics, 2011-03-03)
      This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to ...

    • Sounds Of Chinese Korean: A Variationist Approach 

      Jin, Wenhua (Linguistics, 2008-08-08)
      This study approaches the understudied Chinese Korean from a variationist perspective, with an aim to capture the variation patterns and potential changes in the sounds of Chinese Korean. More specifically, three variables ...