Mechanism of extreme phonetic reduction : evidence from Taiwan Mandarin
Extreme reduction refers to the phenomenon where intervocalic consonants are so severely reduced that two or more adjacent syllables appear to be merged into one. Such severe reduction is often considered a characteristic of natural speech and to be closely related to factors including lexical frequ...
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University College London (University of London)
2012
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