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Feldman, David M. – 1968
Although standard descriptions of spoken Brazilian Portuguese assign separate allophones to both /1/ and /u/ in utterance-final position after a vowel, it has been observed that in rapid speech native speakers articulate /l/ and /u/ in this position so that they are indistinguishable to the average speaker. To answer questions about the possible…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Consonants
Streeter, Lynn A.; Landauer, Thomas K. – 1975
Very sharp discrimination functions for the timing of voice onset relative to stop release characterize perceptual boundaries between certain pairs of stop consonants for adult speakers of many languages. To explore how these discriminations depend on experience, their development was studied among Kikuyu children, whose native language contains…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Bantu Languages, Consonants