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An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of The Intelligibility Of Nepali-Accented English Vowels, Ettien Koffi
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of The Intelligibility Of Nepali-Accented English Vowels, Ettien Koffi
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This research is carried out to gauge the intelligibility of vowels produced by 19 Nepali international students (10 male and 9 female) enrolled at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) in fall 2017. At the time of the study, the average length of residency of students was 2.4 years. The students’ data were collected for two interrelated projects. One focused on the social network of Nepali students at SCSU (see companion paper in this volume) and this one investigates the intelligibility of their vowels. Vowels are singled out because they play a greater role in intelligibility than consonants (Prator and Robinett …
A Longitudinal Acoustic Phonetic Study Of English Vowels By A Panamanian Speaker, Ettien Koffi, Fernando G. Lesniak
A Longitudinal Acoustic Phonetic Study Of English Vowels By A Panamanian Speaker, Ettien Koffi, Fernando G. Lesniak
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Longitudinal acquisitions of English vowels have been previously studied by Monroe (2008), Lai (2010), and others. Most of these studies rely primarily on an impressionistic methodology, i.e., native speaking judges listen to oral inputs by non-native speakers and rate the intelligibility of their vowels on a Likert scale. This is not so for this study. The assessment relies primarily on the speech signals emitted by Author 2 when reading vowels in citation form and in running speech. The F1 and F2 correlates of his vowels are measured at three different intervals: in 2011, in 2017, and in 2018. The measured …
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of Northern Minnesota English Vowel Spaces, Michel Backstrom
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of Northern Minnesota English Vowel Spaces, Michel Backstrom
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The dialect of Northern Minnesota English (NMNE) has been acknowledged as a leading suspect in the search for the Minnesota accent. Bartholdi (2015) produced a video, asking Minnesotans: “Are You MN Enough”? The majority of those who responded associated the Minnesota accent in the video with Northern Minnesota. This study seeks to reveal just what that particular dialect of Northern Minnesota actually looks like acoustically. Twenty speakers from the queried region were recorded saying the following eleven vowel phonemes three times [i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ɔ, o, ʊ, u, ʌ] within an isolated hVd structure. The recordings were …