A CONSTRAINT ON HIGH VOWEL DELETION IN OLD ENGLISH

Vowel devoicing/deletion in English and German*

This paper presents and discusses data on vowel devoicing in English from Ph.D. research being carried out under Sarah Hawkins at Cambridge, and more recently with Klaus Kohler at the Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung in Kiel; and data on vowel deletion in German from the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (IPDS 1995, 1996) reported most recently by Pétur Helgason and Klaus K...

Shoji and Shoji Vowel Epenthesis and Consonant Deletion in Japanese Loanwords from English Vowel Epenthesis and Consonant Deletion in Japanese Loanwords from English

Effect of Prosody on Vowel-to-vowel Coarticulation in English

It has been claimed that segments are 'strongly' articulated in two prosodic positions: pitch-accented syllables [4, 5] and domaininitial positions [3, 6, 7, 9]. The current study examines the effect of these two prosodic conditions on resistance to vowel-to-vowel coarticulation, based on acoustic data. This study first shows that vowels are strongly articulated at the edges of prosodic domains...

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

A comparison of vowel devoicing/deletion phenomena in English laboratory speech and German spontaneous speech*

This paper continues the examination of deletion, reduction, and reorganization phenomena in spontaneous German speech1and adduces data from English laboratory speech to establish cross-linguistic similarities between vowel deletion in German and vowel devoicing in English. We describe how two sets of data were gathered: one of Standard Southern British English (S.S.B.E.) that establishes the g...