The Diphthongal Vowel Space Paradox
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This paper investigates style differences in the distribution of Dutch diphthongal vowels over the acoustic vowel space. It aims to find out whether a paradox that arises in monophthongs, i.e. that variation between vowels decreases in informal speech and variation within vowels increases without a loss of identifiability, is also found for diphthongal vowels. Our data reveal only a partial paradox, for which we propose an explanation.
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