A Study on Perceptual Compensation for /u/-fronting in American English
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A Study on Perceptual Compensation for /u/-fronting in American English
0. Introduction There is an undeniable link between speech production and speech perception. In running speech, the phonetic form of consonants and vowels varies due to the overlapping of adjacent articulations (coarticulation). However, the listener hears them as if there were no coarticulatory distortions on the segments. The latter phenomenon—perceptual compensation for coarticulation, a typ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v35i1.3607