Phonetic Distinctiveness vs. Lexical Contrastiveness in Non-Robust Phonemic Contrasts
It is known that the mid vowel contrasts of Standard Italian distinguish few minimal pairs, may be lexically variable, and show some degree of phonological conditioning in certain varieties. As such, they are relevant to recent suggestions that phonemic contrast may be partial, gradient, or otherwis...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Laboratory Phonology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/17 |