Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in Japanese loanword phonology

Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-330

  Kawahara, Shigeto ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilation; Perceptibility; Phonetic (un)naturalness

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749115781     PISSN: 09258558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10831-008-9030-z     Document Type: Article

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