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... consonant necessarily result in a binary feature . The speech signal can either be or not be interrupted , so the feature has the two values + stop consonant and stop consonant . The articulatory maneuvers that speakers use to produce a ...
... consonant necessarily result in a binary feature . The speech signal can either be or not be interrupted , so the feature has the two values + stop consonant and stop consonant . The articulatory maneuvers that speakers use to produce a ...
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... consonants , however , involve occlusions of the supralaryngeal vocal tract . It is obvious that the biological basis for the phonetic feature stop consonant does not rest in the ability of a particular muscle to effect a closure of the ...
... consonants , however , involve occlusions of the supralaryngeal vocal tract . It is obvious that the biological basis for the phonetic feature stop consonant does not rest in the ability of a particular muscle to effect a closure of the ...
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... consonant were a [ d ] . The nonhuman supralaryngeal vocal tract can , in fact , produce consonants like [ b ] and [ d ] , and simple encoding could be established using only bilabial and dental consonant contrasts . The formant ...
... consonant were a [ d ] . The nonhuman supralaryngeal vocal tract can , in fact , produce consonants like [ b ] and [ d ] , and simple encoding could be established using only bilabial and dental consonant contrasts . The formant ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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