Aims: This study investigates the perception and production of the Galician mid vowel
contrasts by 54 early Spanish-Galician bilinguals in the cities of Vigo and Santiago (Galicia …

Purpose: The human voice changes with the progression of neurological disease and the
onset of diseases that affect articulators, often decreasing the effectiveness of …

Since their introduction to sociolinguistics by Hay, Warren, and Drager [(2006). J.
Phon.(Modell. Sociophon. Var.) 34 (4), 458–484], Pillai scores have become a standard …

The present study examines cognate effects in the phonetic production and processing of
the Catalan back mid-vowel contrast (/o/-/ɔ/) by 24 early and highly proficient Spanish …

Although Bulgarian frequently appears in discussions of vowel reduction, the vowel changes
and contrast neutralisation that occur in Bulgarian unstressed syllables are often not well …

This paper examines the vowel productions of three groups of adult Galician-Spanish
bilinguals: Spanish-dominant (SD) bilinguals, Galician-dominant (GD) bilinguals, and Dual …

In some Romance languages with two pairs of mid vowel phonemes, it is acknowledged that
these contrasts are somewhat unstable. We analyze the distribution and realization of the …

The vowel system of Catalan has been the focus of many studies, though work on the
varieties spoken on the island of Eivissa (Ibiza) are scarce, with a single mention of the …

This thesis is an extensive acoustic study of a range of phonetic and phonological
phenomena traditionally referred to as unstressed vowel reduction. Five geographically …

The current study examined vowel production data from a high-variability phonetic training
project (HVPT) focusing on the English vowel contrast/æ/-/ᴧ/to compare the sensitivity of …