An acoustic and articulatory examination of the "oral" in "nasal": The oral articulations of French nasal vowels are not arbitrary

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-33

  Carignan, Christopher ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Articulation; EMA; French; Vowel nasalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903514135     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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