Accommodation to the Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and its Phonological Relevance
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The aerodynamic voicing constraint presents the speaker with some physical limits on maintaining voicing during obstruents. Languages‘ phonologies reveal a variety of strategies in the face of this constraint. These strategies raise serious questions about constraints in Optimality Theory (OT).
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