This paper pursues two goals simultaneously. First, it seeks to describe the [±ATR] vowels of
Anyi Morofu acoustically by investigating six correlates: F0, F1, F2, F3, intensity, and …

Does the speech style used in producing vowels affect intelligibility? The question is worth
asking because, in running speech, vowels have been found to play a greater role in …

This paper is the third installment in an ongoing acoustic phonetic research devoted to
Central Minnesota English (CMNE). The first paper, Koffi (2013), was a general description …

The Cardinal Vowel System (CVS) and the Dispersion Focalization Theory (DFT) make an
important assumption about the inventory of vowels in world languages. The claim is that …

The ability to use Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and spectrographs to disentangle, measure,
and visualize formants has had a profound and beneficial impact on fields as varied as …

Abstract The dialect of Northern Minnesota English (NMNE) has been acknowledged as a
leading suspect in the search for the Minnesota accent. The majority of the commenters who …

In this paper, I investigate the durational characteristics of vowels produced by Central
Minnesota speakers of English. The vowel [o] receives the lion's share of attention because …

The Great Lakes region in the USA has long been regarded as a model as far as the
pronunciation of vowels is concerned:'The Inland Northern dialect [...] is the one most often …

Abstract The Northern Cities Shift (NCS) is a vowel chain shift occurring in parts of the North
dialect region and only the first changes were reported in Minnesotan English, such …

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