How word-beginnings constrain the pronunciations of word-ends in the reading aloud of English: the phenomena of head- and onset-conditioning
Background. A word whose body is pronounced in different ways in different words is body-inconsistent. When we take the unit that precedes the vowel into account for the calculation of body-consistency, the proportion of English words that are body-inconsistent is considerably reduced at the level o...
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| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/1482.pdf |