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Börtlü, Göktug – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The study shows that there are two distinct lateral phonemes in Turkish with a minimal pair example. 20 male native speakers of Turkish, aged 20-26, were asked to read six short phrases and a minimal pair which contained laterals. The spectrograms were examined by PRAAT to determine whether it is possible to identify the laterals with regard to…
Descriptors: Turkish, Phonetics, Phonemes, Acoustics
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Shoibekova, Gaziza B.; Odanova, Sagira A.; Sultanova, Bibigul M.; Yermekova, Tynyshtyk N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The present study comprehensively analyzes vowel harmony as an important phonetic rule in Turkic languages. Recent changes in the vowel harmony potential of Turkic sounds caused by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors were described. Vowels in the Kazakh, Turkish, and Uzbek language were compared. The way this or that phoneme sounded in the…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Turkish, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Classification
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Janssen, Caressa; Segers, Eliane; McQueen, James M.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Learning, 2015
Children who start formal education in a second language may experience slower vocabulary growth in that language and subsequently experience disadvantages in literacy acquisition. The current study asked whether lexical specificity training can stimulate bilingual children's phonological awareness, which is considered to be a precursor to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Phonemes, Bilingualism