Voice quality and L2 proficiency in the English tense-lax contrast
Experimental studies of the English contrasts between high vowels (sometimes referred to as a tense-lax contrast) have shown that phonation characteristics may play a role in maintaining the opposition in native varieties: tense vowels in English have been found to show a greater degree of breathine...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2058 |