Vowel devoicing/deletion in English and German*
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This paper presents and discusses data on vowel devoicing in English from Ph.D. research being carried out under Sarah Hawkins at Cambridge, and more recently with Klaus Kohler at the Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung in Kiel; and data on vowel deletion in German from the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (IPDS 1995, 1996) reported most recently by Pétur Helgason and Klaus Kohler (Helgason and Kohler 1996). There are three main aims:
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