Within-Speaker Perception and Production of Two Marginal Contrasts in Illinois English

The notion of marginal contrasts and other gradient relations challenges the classification of phones as either contrastive phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme. The existence of “fuzzy” or “intermediate” contrasts has implications for language acquisition and sound change. In this research, w...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Zhang, Lindsey Graham, Marissa Barlaz, José Ignacio Hualde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.844862/full