The Structure and Plasticity of Phonetic Categories Across Languages and Modalities

Speech sounds contrast on many acoustic dimensions. The constellation of acoustic "cues" defining a given sound contrast is language-specific, such that the "same" sounds in different languages are actually realized slightly differently. Furthermore, even within the same language...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schertz, Jessamyn Leigh
Other Authors: Warner, Natasha
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/322968