Linguistic Phonetics: A Look into the Future
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This paper exemplifies the need for collecting extensive experimental data on the languagedependent articulatory and acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants. It reports data on constriction location for (alveolo)palatal consonants, and on the F2 frequency for allophonic realizations of different varieties of /l/, in several language groups.
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