Crosslinguistic acoustic categorization of sibilants independent of phonological status

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 345-370

  Evers, Vincent ^a   Reetz, Henning ^a   Lahiri, Aditi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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EID: 0032187203     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpho.1998.0079     Document Type: Article

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