Research Publications (Linguistics)
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2015-05-01
The present paper investigates the effects of word position, stress and vowel phonation on the duration of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac (UNT), a Totonacan language of northern Puebla, Mexico. Duration measurements were taken of frication and periods of silence occurring between...
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2015
Pollock, Karen, Tucker, Benjamin V., Mills, Timothy
Phonetics is an inherently lab-oriented topic, involving the investigation and analysis of speech data; but it is often taught in large sections with limited instructional time and other resources, so instructors are unable to engage in the deep interactive explorations of topics that would be...
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Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech: Extended Table II
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Tucker, Benjamin V., Warner, Natasha
TABLE II: Average (left) and standard deviation (right) for each dependent measure (consonant duration (sec.), intensity drop, proportion with a voiceless portion during the consonant, proportion with a burst, proportion with cessation in F2 and F3), and number of tokens. S: post-stress, U:...
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2000
Individual members of the Totonacan family - a group of at least four languages spoken in East Central Mexico - have been claimed to either lack adjectives or to have only a restricted, closed class of adjectives, words expressing property concepts belonging to the class ofnoun. The basisfor this...
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The Straw that Broke the Language's Back: Language Shift in the Upper Necaxa Valley of Mexico
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This article examines the factors that have led to a shift to Spanish in the Upper Necaxa Totonac communities of east-central Mexico. Despite the fact that Spanish and Totonac have been in contact since before the eighteenth century, the shift to the majority language has only occurred in the...