Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place contrasts
Typological studies of place assimilation show that nasal consonants are more likely to assimilate in place than oral stops (Cho, 1990; Jun, 1995, 2004; Mohanan, 1993). Jun (1995, 2004) argues that this typological asymmetry derives from a difference in the perceptibility of the place contrasts in n...
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De Gruyter
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0002/opli-2014-0002.xml?format=INT |