Prosodically conditioned strengthening and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-176

  Cho, Taehong ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accent; Coarticulatory resistance; English; Prosodic boundary; Prosodic structure; Prosody; Strengthening; Vowel to vowel coarticulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942750458     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(03)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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