Acoustic Similarity of Inner and Outer Circle Varieties of Child-Produced English Vowels.
Purpose: This article compares acoustic data of normally developing children from two dominant and one nondominant variety of English in order to determine phonetic proximity. Method: The study focuses on one variety of American English (AE), one British English (BE) variety, and one Jamaican Englis...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 722 - 738 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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