Browsing Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume 43 (January 1994) by Title
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Initial tones and prominence in Seoul Korean
De Jong, Ken ( 1994-01 )The present paper reports on an investigation of the informal observation that Seoul Korean nouns have an initial prominence and often have an initial prominence entirely due to an initial intonational prominence, or could ... -
Interference for 'new' versus 'similar' vowels in Korean speakers of English
Jun, Sun-Ah; Cowie, Islay ( 1994-01 )This paper tests Flege's (1987) Speech Learning Model and Bohn and Flege's (in press) hypothesis about the 'deflected' realization rule of a 'similar' L2 vowel. It is shown that Korean-English bilinguals' production of new ... -
Labial Position and Acoustics of Korean and English High Vowels
Jun, Sun-Ah ( 1994-01 )This paper examines and contrasts the labial configuration and formant frequencies of Korean and English high vowels. Korean has three high vowels, /i, i, u/, and English has four, /i, I, U, u/. The lip gestures and formant ... -
Lip rounding and vowel formant frequencies in Nantong Chinese
Ao, Benjamin ( 1994-01 )A study of the vowel system of Nantong Chinese, which has as many as seven high vowels, suggests that instead of the traditional two formant model, a three formant model is needed to approximate the Nantong vowel space. ... -
Lip rounding in Amoy and Mandarin high vowels: maximum dispersion, or adequate separation
Pan, Ho-hsien ( 1994-01 )There are two hypotheses about the relationship between phonological contrasts and phonetic feature scales. Some phoneticians propose that values are chosen so that contrasting phonemes are maximally separated, e.g., ... -
Prosody and intrasyllabic timing in French
Fletcher, Janet; Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric ( 1994-01 )Durational variation associated with accentuation and final lengthening is examined in a corpus of articulatory data for French. Both factors are associated with measurable differences in acoustic duration. However two ... -
The Timing of Lip Rounding and Tongue Backing for /u/
Lee, Gina M. ( 1994-01 )A small corpus of X-ray microbeam data was examined to test the predictions made by two well-known views of anticipatory coarticulation: time locking and feature spreading. Lip rounding and tongue backing associated with ...