Vowel Raising in Nkpor Dialect: A Pattern of Sound Change

Path of Vowel Raising in Chengdu Dialect of Mandarin

He and Rao (2013) reported a raising phenomenon of /a/ in /Xan/ (X being a consonant or a vowel) in Chengdu dialect of Mandarin, i.e. /a/ is realized as [ɛ] for young speakers but [æ] for older speakers, but they offered no acoustic analysis. We designed an acoustic study that examined the realization of /Xan/ in speakers of different age (old vs. young) and gender (male vs. female) groups, whe...

Assimilation of Final Low Back Vowel in Eghlidian Dialect

In this article, the low back vowel /A/ in word-final positions in Eghlidian dialect, one of Persian dialects, is studied. This vowel is represented phonetically as [A], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. Therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. Since one of the authors of th...

network of phonological rules in lori dialect of andimeshk: a study within the framework of post-generative approach.

پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی توصیفی است از نظام آوایی گویش لری شهر اندیمشک، واقع در شمال غربی استان خوزستان. چهارچوب نظری این پژوهش، انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل می باشد. این پایان نامه شامل موارد زیر است: -توصیف آواهای این گویش به صورت آواشناسی سنتی و در قالب مختصه های زایشی ممیز، همراه با آوانوشته ی تفصیلی؛ -توصیف نظام آوایی گویش لری و قواعد واجی آن در چهارچوب انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل و معرفی برهم کن...

Stability and change along a dialect boundary: The low vowel mergers of Southeastern New England

A phonetic analysis of back vowel raising in Dublin English

1. ABSTRACT This study uses acoustic phonetic techniques to verify reports of back vowel raising in Dublin English and re-interpret those changes. Hickey [9] describes the raising of a series of back vowels as characteristic of a new variety of Dublin English. He interprets this raising as a shift away from the open realisations of vernacular forms of Dublin English. This study confirms the pre...