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Flaps and Other Variants of /t/ in American English: Allophonic Distribution without Constraints, Rules, or Abstractions*
The distribution of the flap allophone [n] of American English, along with the other allophones of /t/, [t5, t , , t] has been accounted for in various formal frameworks by = assuming a number of different abstract mechanisms and entities. The desirability or usefulness of these formalisms is not at issue in the present paper. Instead, a computationally explicit model of categorization is used...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Phonetics
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0095-4470
DOI: 10.1016/s0095-4470(19)31174-x