Comparing palatography patterns of Estonian consonants across time
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چکیده
The few known palatographic studies on Estonian consonants date back to the 1970s, and no research in articulatory phonetics has been practised throughout the following four decades. Recently, the Estonian EPG corpus was recorded using a contemporary EPG system. In the paper we introduce first results on contemporary palatography patterns of Estonian sonorants and compare these to results from Arvo Eek’s seminal studies in the 1970s.
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