Quantitative Acoustic versus Deep Learning Metrics of Lenition

Spanish voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a phonological process known as spirantization or, more broadly, lenition. However, conditioned by various factors such as stress, place of articulation, flanking vowel quality, and speaking rate, phoneti...

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Main Authors: Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/98