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Vowels

Index of SIL publications on Vowels listed by country.

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General works

• ANDERSON, Coleen G., author. 2009. Review of: The origins of vowel systems: studies in the evolution of language 1, by Bart de Boer.  
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1996. Resolving hiatus.
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1998. Resolving hiatus.
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 2003. "[ATR] value asymmetries and underlying vowel inventory structure in Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan."
• PARKER, Stephen G., author. 2000. Central vs. back vowels.  
• PEARCE, Mary, author. 2008. "Vowel harmony domains and vowel undershoot."  
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1947. "On the phonemic status of English diphthongs."
• WEERA Ostapirat, author. 1996. "Kadai dummy ‘-w’."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

• BEARTH, Thomas; HOFER, Verena, authors. 1975. "Système vocalique et sandhi vocalique en wobé."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• KUTSCH LOJENGA, Constance, author. 1989. "The secret behind vowelless syllables in Lendu."
• MCCORD, Michael S., author. 1989. Acoustical and autosegmental analyses of the Mayogo vowel system.

Ethiopia

• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1989. "Status and dynamics of Ethiopian vowel systems."

Ghana

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 1994. Diphthongization and underspecification in Kɔnni.  
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2009. "Kɔnni vowel feature spread across consonants."  
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1995. "On the reduction of vowel systems in Volta-Congo."

Niger

• JARRETT, Kevin A., author. 1978. "Vowel length in Kanuri."

Nigeria

• JARRETT, Kevin A., author. 1978. "Vowel length in Kanuri."
• STERK, Jan P., author. 1990. "Features of vowel assimilation in Gade (a language in evolution)."

Sudan

• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1981. "The twenty vowels of the Dhe Luwo (Jur Luo, Sudan)."
• MALOU, Job D., author. 1988. Dinka vowel system.
• SCHRÖDER, Helga; SCHRÖDER, Martin, authors. 1987. "Voiceless vowels in Toposa."

Tanzania

• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2000. Rangi vowel system: five or seven?.  

Americas

Bolivia

• BAPTISTA, Priscilla M.; WALLIN, Ruth, authors. 1968. "Baure vowel elision."

Brazil

• KROEKER, Menno H., author. 1976. "Condicionamento múltiplo de vogais na língua nambikuára."

Canada

• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1957. "Quality and quantity in Cree vowels."

Colombia

• KONDO, Riena W., author. 1985. "Contribución al estudio de la longitud vocálica y el acento en el idioma guahibo."  

Guatemala

• GODFREY, Thomas J., author. 1983. "In defense of "Mam texts from Tacaná"."

Mexico

• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1968. "Concerning the elimination of nasalized vowels in Mezquital Otomi."
• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1989. "The Proto Otopamean vowel system and the development of Matlatzinca."
• BICKFORD, J. Albert, author. 1984. "Vowel shifts in Mixe."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1987. La duración vocálica en el Trique de Copala: Un análisis abstracto.  
• HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1959. "Three contrastive vowel lengths in Mixe."
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Seri vowels and the obligatory contour principle.
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Vowel length in Seri possessed nouns.
• PIKE, Eunice V.; SCHRAM, Judith L., authors. 1978. "Vowel fusion in Mazatec of Jalapa de Diaz."
• UPSON, Jessamine, author. 1968. "Chatino length and tone."

Peru

• ADAMS, Patsy; MARLETT, Stephen A., authors. 1994. Vowel features in Madija.
• BERGLI, Ågot; COOMBS, Heidi, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.  
• LANDERMAN, Peter N.; WEBER, David J., authors. 1985. "On the interpretation of long vowels in Quechua."
• LANDERMAN, Peter N.; WEBER, David J., authors. 2008. "La interpretación de las vocales largas en el quechua."
• MINOR, Eugene E., author. 1956. "Witoto vowel clusters."
• PARKER, Stephen G., author. 2001. "The acoustic qualities of Bora vowels."

United States

• CANONGE, Elliott, author. 1957. "Voiceless vowels in Comanche."
• LEMAN, Wayne E.; RHODES, Richard, authors. 1978. "Cheyenne vowel devoicing."

Asia

Cambodia

• WAYLAND, Ratree P., author. 1998. "An acoustic study of Battambang Khmer vowels."  

China

• DABAI, Ni, author. 1997. "Front /a/ and back /a/ in Biandan Mountain Bouyei."

Indonesia

• COHN, Abigail C., author. 1993. "Voicing and vowel height in Madurese: a preliminary report."

Nepal

• FRIEDMAN, Lindsay C.; HALE, Austin; KANSAKAR, Tej Ratna; TULADHAR, Jyoti, authors. 1983. On the variants of Newari vowels: a study in phonological non-alignment.
• HALE, Austin; SCHÖTTELNDREYER, Burkhard, authors. 1970. "A note on Sherpa vowels."
• SCHÖTTELNDREYER, Burkhard, author. 1980. "Glides in Sherpa."
• SCHÖTTELNDREYER, Burkhard, author. 1980. "Vowel and tone patterns in the Sherpa verb."

Pakistan

• RADLOFF, Carla F., author. 2003. "The solution to a linguistic mystery: the absence of diphthongs in the Shina language of Gilgit (with implications for writers and learners of Gilgiti Shina)."

Philippines

• ABRAMS, Norman, author. 1963. "Vowel quantity in Mansaka."
• BLOOD, Doris E., author. 1962. "The ‘Y’ archiphoneme in Mamanwa."
• ECK, Jerry, author. 1974. Magindanao penultimate vowels.
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1963. "Partial loss of contrast between a and e in Western Bukidnon Manobo."
• GREEN, Peter; HALE, Austin, authors. 1977. "The interpretation of semi-vowels in Tagbanua of Palawan Island."
• HEADLAND, Thomas N.; WOLFENDEN, Elmer, authors. 1967. "The vowels of Casiguran Dumagat."
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1962. "On non-syllabic high vocoids in Maguindanao."
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1964. "Maguindanao /l/."

Russian Federation

• KOMEN, Erwin R., author. 2007. Chechen vowel inventory.  

Thailand

• JONGMAN, Allard; WAYLAND, Ratree P., authors. 2001. "Chanthaburi Khmer vowels: phonetic and phonemic analyses."  
• NARASET Pisitpanporn, author. 1998. "Khmer vowels in transition."  
• PHANINTRA Teeranon, author. 2007. "The intrinsic pitch and intrinsic length of high and low vowels in Mon-Khmer language."  
• PUTTACHART Dhananjayananda, author. 1997. "The emergence of the length distinction in the mid-front vowels ‘e-ee’ in Thai."
• TUMTAVITIKUL, Apiluck, author. 1996. "The mid central vowel [ə] in Thai."  

Viet Nam

• BLOOD, Henry F., author. 1963. "The vowel system of Uon Njuin Mnong Rolom."
• COOPER, Michael, author. 1996. Some fortitions and lenitions in Vietnamese.
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1975. Psycholinguistic reaction and the teaching of vowel length.
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1977. "Devoicing, aspiration, and vowel split in Haroi: Evidence for register (contrastive tongue-root position)."
• MILLER, Carolyn P.; MILLER, John D.; PHILLIPS, Richard L., authors. 1976. "The Bru vowel system: Alternate analyses."  
• PHILLIPS, Richard L., author. 1973. "Mnong vowel variations with initial stops."  
• VƯƠNG Hữu Lễ, author. 1999. "A new interpretation of the Bru Vân and Kiêu vowel system."  

Europe

Russian Federation

• KOMEN, Erwin R., author. 2007. Chechen vowel inventory.  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• CONRAD, Jo Ann; CONRAD, Robert J., authors. 1987. "The symbolization of /ə/ in Mufian (Southern Arapesh)."  
• DAVIES, H. John, author. 1980. "The phonological status of the semivowel in Kobon."
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1974. "A diachronic note on Mendi vowels."  
• KING, Phil, author. 2007. An Acoustic Description of Central Vowels in Three Austronesian Languages of New Ireland.  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1967. "Selepet vocoid clusters."
• PAWLEY, Andrew, author. 1975. "On epenthetic vowels in New Guinea Pidgin."