Comparing tongue kinematic and acoustic phasing patterns for vowel quantity contrasts in WOLOF

Articulatory and acoustic correlates of tongue root contrasts in Gua

Vowel systems in West African languages are often noted for using the position of the tongue root (T

Acoustic characteristics of tongue root position and vowel assimilation in Akan

The purpose of this research was twofold: (1) To find an acoustic measure (or diagnosis) of tongue r

Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof

Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical approaches allow statistical evaluation of a much larger set of hypothesis about phon

Vowel duration and neutralization of vowel length contrasts in Kinyarwanda

Dagara Tongue-Root Vowel Harmony

Three-level vowel length and phantom quantity in Shilluk