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Voice Onset Time, Onsets, Codas, and Pre- & Post-Aspiration
Voice onset time is a convenient measurement that can be used to compare aspirated, tenuis, and voiced stops to each other, since across different languages (or across different contexts within a ...
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Determining the number of phonemes from set of phones
I think the first thing you have to "get" to do this is that "phones" refer to actual pronunciation, and "phonemes" refer to the grammatical "starting point" of ...
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How exactly are vowel qualities plotted on a neat quadrilateral chart?
There are many possible answers, and surprisingly, nobody ever says how they create the trapezium. In your example, we can't even identify an actual person who probably created it. You can find a ...
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What is the name of this sound change, and do we have it in English?
In Arabic this practice is called "ibdal" (which means conversion) (ابدال).
In Persian the same name is used because:
Persian has borrowed so many words from Arabic.
Ibdal is also a Quran ...
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Displaying formants in real time
Late to the party, but I just found some tools that can do this.
VowelWorm: https://github.com/BYU-ODH/apeworm
demo: https://byu-odh.github.io/apeworm/examples/sources.html (need an older browser to ...
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