Crosslinguistic acoustic categorization of sibilants independent of phonological status

The main object of this paper is to provide an acoustic characterization of a stable phonetic contrast across a number of variable dimensions such as vowel context, gender, language, and, in particular, phonological status. The contrast that is investigated is between the dental/alveolar sibilant fr...

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Main Authors: Evers, V, Reetz, H, Lahiri, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Academic Press 1998
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