Perceptual Distance of Contrast: Vowel Height and Nasality
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Acknowledgments: Many thanks to audiences at UC Irvine, and at a UCSC phonology lunch meeting, for much helpful commentary. Thanks especially to Ryan Bush, Junko Itô, Armin Mester, Nathan Sanders, Rachel Walker, and Moira Yip. 1 On the following see Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale, and for interpretation Wells (1957) and Anderson (1985). The usual caveats when one attributes views to Saussure apply here.
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