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Ethnicity and phonetic variation in Sheffield English liquids by Kirkham, Sam

“…This article reports a study of acoustic phonetic variation between ethnic groups in the realisation of the British English liquids /l/ and /ɹ/. Data are…”
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Acoustics of Russian voiceless sibilant fricatives by Kochetov, Alexei

“…This study investigated acoustic properties of the four-way contrast in Russian voiceless sibilant fricatives (/s s j ʂ ʃ j /). Words with these consonants,…”
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Russian by Yanushevskaya, Irena, Bunčić, Daniel

“…Russian (ISO 639-3 rus) is an Indo-European East Slavic language spoken by about 162 million people as their first language and about another 110 million as…”
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Clicks and percussives in English conversation by Ogden, Richard

“…Clicks are known to occur in English conversation, and have traditionally been assumed to convey affective meaning, generally negative. This is indeed the lay…”
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Revisiting Mandarin ‘apical vowels’: An articulatory and acoustic study by Lee-Kim, Sang-Im

“…The present study investigates the articulatory and acoustic properties of the unique apical segments in Mandarin Chinese that occur after dental and retroflex…”
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The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change by Bukmaier, Véronique, Harrington, Jonathan

“…The study is concerned with the relative synchronic stability of three contrastive sibilant fricatives /s ʂ ɕ/ in Polish. Tongue movement data were collected…”
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Ukrainian by Pompino-Marschall, Bernd, Steriopolo, Elena, Żygis, Marzena

“…About 35 million people around the world speak Ukrainian (Lewis, Simons & Fenning 2016). The largest populations of Ukrainian speakers outside Ukraine (more…”
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The acoustic consequences of phonation and tone interactions in Jalapa Mazatec by Garellek, Marc, Keating, Patricia

“…San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz (Jalapa) Mazatec is unusual in possessing a three-way phonation contrast and three-way level tone contrast independent of phonation…”
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Shanghai Chinese by Chen, Yiya, Gussenhoven, Carlos

“…Shanghai Chinese (Shanghainese; 上海话) is a Wu dialect (ISO 639-3; code: wuu) spoken in the city of Shanghai (CN-31), one of the four municipalities in the…”
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How phonetic features project more talk by Local, John, Walker, Gareth

“…Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch…”
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Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng by Pittayaporn, Pittayawat, Kirby, James

“…The Tai dialect spoken in Cao Bằng province, Vietnam, is at an intermediate stage between tonal register split and the accompanying transphonologization of a…”
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The role of code-switching and language context in bilingual phonetic transfer by Olson, Daniel J.

“…The present study examines the effect of two potential catalysts for interlanguage phonetic interaction, code-switching and language mode, on the production of…”
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Upper Sorbian by Howson, Phil

“…Sorbian is a West Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany, in Saxony and Brandenburg near the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, and is recognized as…”
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Standard Austrian German by Moosmüller, Sylvia, Schmid, Carolin, Brandstätter, Julia

“…The development of Standard Austrian German (SAG; de-AT) is closely linked to the development of Standard German German (SGG; de-DE) as spoken in Northern…”
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A study of laryngeal gestures in Mandarin citation tones using simultaneous laryngoscopy and laryngeal ultrasound (SLLUS) by Moisik, Scott R., Lin, Hua, Esling, John H.

“…In this work, Mandarin tone production is examined using simultaneous laryngoscopy and laryngeal ultrasound (SLLUS). Laryngoscopy is used to obtain information…”
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Preaspiration in Hebrides English by Clayton, Ian

“…Preaspirated voiceless stops, a well-documented feature of Scottish Gaelic (Ní Chasaide 1985, Clayton 2010, Nance & Stuart-Smith 2013), have also been reported…”
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Stress and phrasal prominence in tone languages: The case of Southern Vietnamese by Brunelle, Marc

“…There is no consensus on the nature, or even the existence, of Vietnamese word stress. While some authors have proposed that it is morphosyntactically…”
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Nen by Evans, Nicholas, Miller, Julia Colleen

“…Nen (ISO 639–3 code: nqn) is the easternmost language of the Yam (Morehead-Maro) family of Southern New Guinea. This family is one of over forty maximal…”
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Khowar by Liljegren, Henrik, Khan, Afsar Ali

“…Khowar (ISO 639-3: khw) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 200,000–300,000 (Decker 1992: 31–32; Bashir 2003: 843) people in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…”
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The phonetics of register in Takhian Thong Chong by DiCanio, Christian T.

“…The Chong language uses a combination of different acoustic correlates to distinguish among its four contrastive registers (phonation types)…”
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