Phonetics of Jemez vowels

Phonetics and Phonology of Transparent Vowels in Hungarian

1. Introduction Vowel harmony is a requirement by which vowels in a certain domain agree in one or more phonetic features. 1 In Hungarian, the feature subject to harmony is the horizontal position of the tongue ([±back]). In many Hungarian roots, vowels in a word are either all front or all back, as in öröm 'joy', város 'city' (umlaut denotes front round vowels, and acute accent denotes length)...

Interaction of phonetics, phonology, and sociophonology - illustrated by the vowels of standard Austrian German

Standard Austrian German, which distinguishes eight front vowels, exploits two front constriction locations for distinguishing these vowels, a pre-palatal and a palatal one. However, the pre-palatal location is acoustically unstable, and, consequently, phonologically undesirable. The existence of a sound change which neutralizes the /i/ and /ɪ/ vowels in a first step and shifts the constriction...

The Phonetics and Phonology of Non-modal Vowels: a Cross-linguistic Perspective

This paper provides phonetic explanations for a number of asymmetries in the distribution of non-modal voiced and modal voiced vowels found in a typology of over 50 languages with non-modal vowels. The distribution of non-modal vowels cross-linguistically is argued to result from the conflicting demands of perceptual salience and articulatory ease; this conflict can be formally modeled in an co...

The Phonology and Phonetics of Unac- centable Vowels in Kyungsang Korean

Phonetics in Phonology and Phonology in Phonetics

5. Some caveats -The phonetics/phonology interface is a broad topic that has been considered from many points of views. -Extensive recent literature in acquisition, psycholinguistics, role of the lexicon, role of speech perception (See among others, recent LabPhon volumes, Burton-Roberts et al. 2000, Hume and Johnson 2001, Bod et al. 2003) -Conclusion recently argued for by Pierrehumbert (2003,...