Weak vowels in modern RP: An acoustic study of happy-tensing and kit/schwa shift

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-237

  Fabricius, Anne ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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