Effects of place of articulation changes on auditory neural activity: a magnetoencephalography study.

In casual speech, phonemic segments often assimilate such that they adopt features from adjacent segments, a typical feature being their place of articulation within the vocal tract (e.g., labial, coronal, velar). Place assimilation (e.g., from coronal /n/ to labial /m/: rainbow-->*raimbow) alter...

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Main Authors: Kambiz Tavabi, Ludger Elling, Christian Dobel, Christo Pantev, Pienie Zwitserlood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2635960?pdf=render