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Justin Edward Bland – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the perception of unstressed vowel reduction (UVR)--also known as vowel devoicing--in Central Mexican Spanish. UVR is a variable, gradient process in which vowels undergo a constellation of phonetic weakening processes including shortening, devoicing, and apparent deletion (Gordon 1998). While it is…
Descriptors: Vowels, Suprasegmentals, Spanish, Foreign Countries