Abbreviation of consonants in English pre- and post-vocalic clusters

Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

Post-vocalic stop consonants in Mebengokre (Northern Jê, Brazil): A preliminary investigation

This paper presents the first acoustic phonetic investigation of Mebengokre, a Jê language spoken in the brazilian Amazon. Our focus lies in one conspicuous property of this language’s phonetic structure: the frequent occurrence of unreleased stops in post-vocalic position. Based on auditory impressions from the field and on theoretical considerations we expected to observe variation in vowel d...

a contrastive analysis of concord and head parameter in english and azerbaijani

این پایان نامه به بررسی و مقایسه دو موضوع مطابقه میان فعل و فاعل (از نظر شخص و مشار) و هسته عبارت در دو زبان انگلیسی و آذربایجانی می پردازد. اول رابطه دستوری مطابقه مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. مطابقه به این معناست که فعل مفرد به همراه فاعل مفرد و فعل جمع به همراه فاعل جمع می آید. در انگلیسی تمام افعال، بجز فعل بودن (to be) از نظر شمار با فاعلشان فقط در سوم شخص مفرد و در زمان حال مطابقت نشان میدهند...

Velocity measures in ultrasound data. Gestural timing of post-vocalic /l/ in English

We propose a new method for extracting dynamic information from midsagittal ultrasound images of tongue shape and location. The method is based on analysing parts of the tongue contour as they appear to travel up and down fan lines at key articulatory locations, representing velar and alveolar constrictions. The tongue displacement in these dimensions serves as the basis for calculating instant...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...