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Stress Variation As Unifying Features Of Upstate New York, Tracey Vail
Stress Variation As Unifying Features Of Upstate New York, Tracey Vail
Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics
This study investigates sociophonetic stress variation in the Onondaga County area of Upstate New York. I argue that five variations of stress correlate to factors of age, education level, place of residence, frequency, and analogical change. Dinkin and Evanini (2010) have examined and discovered similar outcomes of stress variation in his work with dialectal features across the state of New York. Rather than analyze the state and its borders in their entirety, I focus on morpheme-specific analogical change of stress in specific social categories within the Syracuse, New York region. In terms of lexical items, I analyze stress placement within …
Syllable Position Effects And Gestural Organization: Evidence From Russian, Alexei Kochetov
Syllable Position Effects And Gestural Organization: Evidence From Russian, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
Previous articulatory studies have shown that English syllable-initial and syllable-final consonants exhibit different patterns of gestural organization. These differences – syllable position effects – are manifested primarily in the relative timing and magnitude of gestures. In general, syllable-initial consonants show more stable patterns of coordination and “tighter” articu-latory constrictions than the same consonants in syllable-final position. This paper addresses the question of whether syllable position effects hold for other languages by examining the articulatory properties of some Rus-sian syllable-initial and syllable final consonants: the palatal glide /j/ and labial stops /pj/ and /p/. In general, the articulometer (EMMA) results con-firm …
Predicting Pronunciation From Spelling: Applying The Insights Of Transformational Grammar To The Teaching Of English: Tense And Lax Vowels, Barbara Hancock
Predicting Pronunciation From Spelling: Applying The Insights Of Transformational Grammar To The Teaching Of English: Tense And Lax Vowels, Barbara Hancock
MA TESOL Collection
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