Perceptual relevance of long-domain phonetic dependencies
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چکیده
This study is concerned with the perceptual relevance of regressive vowel harmony in French. Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment showed that acoustic variations in a non-final vowel depending on the final vowel can be detected by listeners. The second experiment revealed that vowel harmony can facilitate the identification of the final vowel. Implications for current models of speech perception are discussed.
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