Modulation of the following segment effect on English coronal stop deletion by syntactic boundaries
Variable deletion of word-final coronal stops in English is strongly conditioned by whether the following segment is a consonant or a vowel. This paper uses corpus data to show that this following segment effect is weaker across strong syntactic boundaries (such as between independent matrix clauses...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/489 |