A Study of Vowel Nasalization and Vowel Epenthesis Processes in Cameroon Francophone English

Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers' L2 English

This study investigated how vowel epenthesis, a typical suprasegmental error produced by Japanese learners of English, is realized in their speech production of L2 English. We investigated two aspects: (i) whether loanword epenthesis phonology in Japanese transfers to English speech production, and (ii) how learners’ English proficiency level affects vowel epenthesis. In Japanese loanword phono...

Individual Differences in Vowel Epenthesis among Korean Learners of English

The aim of this study was to investigate individual differences in vowel epenthesis among Korean L2 speakers of English, and its relationship to other measures of segmental and suprasegmental processing. Thirty-two subjects completed a battery of production and perception tasks: spoken target words that were likely to have epenthetic vowels, read sentences, epenthetic vowel perception, identifi...

Vowel Nasalization and Nasal Loss in Italian

This paper examines pre-nasal consonant vowel nasalization and nasal consonant loss in Italian using airflow and acoustic waveform data. Speech material consists of Italian words containing VNC sequences where V = /i/ or /a/ and C=voiced and voiceless consonants with different manners and places of articulation. The results show that voiceless fricatives are most conducive to nasalization and n...

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

The aerodynamics of vowel nasality and nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is thought to possess contrastive nasal vowels that are different from contextually nasalized vowels in its phonological system. Aerodynamic data (nasal and oral airflow) of 11 native speakers show that interspeaker variability is important in this language with regard to the nasal airflow ratio of tautosyllabic nasal vowels (TNVs; campo [kɐ̃ pʊ] ‘field’) and heterosyll...