Nasal coarticulation changes over time in Philadelphia English

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-35

  Zellou, Georgia ^a   Tamminga, Meredith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarticulation; Lexical frequency; Phonetic variation; Sound change; Spontaneous speech corpus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908667315     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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