Prosodic strengthening on the /s/-stop cluster and the phonetic implementation of an allophonic rule in English

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 128-146

  Cho, Taehong ^a   Lee, Yoonjeong ^b   Kim, Sahyang ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

s stop sequence; Allophonic rule; Articulatory phonology; English; Laryngeal gesture; Phonetic feature enhancement; Prominence; Prosodic boundary; Prosodic strengthening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905245040     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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