Perceptual distinctiveness between dental and palatal sibilants in different vowel contexts and its implications for phonological contrasts
Mandarin Chinese has dental, palatal, and retroflex sibilants, but their contrasts before [_i] are avoided: The palatals appear before [i] while the dentals and retroflexes appear before homorganic syllabic approximants (a.k.a. apical vowels). An enhancement view regards the apical vowels as a way t...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Laboratory Phonology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/27 |