Corpora analyses of frequency of schwa deletion in conversational American English

Phonetica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-69

  Patterson, David ^a   LoCasto, Paul C ^a   Connine, Cynthia M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0042825689     PISSN: 00318388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070453     Document Type: Article

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