Bengali and Spanish vowels: a comparative analysis

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dc.creatorChowdhury, Abdullah Rafique-um-Munir
dc.creatorHossain, Md Imran
dc.date2023-12-19T19:42:51Z
dc.date2023-12-19T19:42:51Z
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-11T17:04:31Z
dc.date.available2026-02-11T17:04:31Z
dc.descriptionBengali and Spanish differ in their vowel systems. Bengalí has seven vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, ɔ, o, u/ and Spanish has five vowels: /i, e, a, o, u/. This study compared the acoustic characteristics of Bengali and Spanish oral vowels. F1 and F2 data were collected from speech samples using Praat software. Results showed that Spanish vowels' space was smaller than Bengali. Some realizations of Spanish /i/, /o/ and /a/ were similar to Bengali /e/, /u/ and /ɛ/ respectively. Moreover, open allophones of Spanish /e/ and /o/ —[ɛ] and [ɔ] respectively— have potential to be perceived as Bengali /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ phonemes. In conclusion, this comparison of the vowel systems suggest that Bengali speakers would tend to convert the penta-vocalic system of Spanish into a hepta-vocalic system due to similarities in acoustic realizations; they may use open [ɛ] and [ɔ] as frequent allophones of Spanish /a/ and /o/ respectively.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10895/4563
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.bibliolatino.com/handle/123456789/854
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dc.publisherDhaka University
dc.relationJournal of the Institute of Modern Languages, 31, 141-153
dc.rightsLicencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial – Sin Derivadas (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
dc.subjectBengali vowels
dc.subjectSpanish vowels
dc.subjectPhonetics
dc.titleBengali and Spanish vowels: a comparative analysis
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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