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Individual variation in English flaps and taps: A case of categorical phonetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Donald Derrick  and
Bryan Gick
Donald Derrick
Affiliation:
University of Western Sydney and University of Canterbury
Bryan Gick
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University and Haskins Laboratories
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This article questions the view that phonetics governs exclusively gradient phenomena. Experimental data from an ultrasound study of English flap allophones show unconditioned categorical variation in the production of everyday words. Individual variation is discussed as an essential area of empirical investigation in uncovering emergent categorical properties of language.

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Cet article remet en question l'idée selon laquelle la phonétique gouverne des phénomènes exclusivement gradients. Des données expérimentales d'une étude ultrasonique d'allophones à consonnes vibrantes en anglais montrent une variation catégorique inconditionnée dans la production de mots courants. La variation individuelle est présentée comme un domaine d'investigation empirique essentiel pour découvrir les propriétés catégoriques émergentes du langage.

Keywords

individual variationunconditioned categoricality in phoneticsspeech productionflapsultrasoundvariation individuellecatégoralité non conditionnée en phonétiqueproduction de discoursconsonnes vibrantesultrason
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 2011 , pp. 307 - 319
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 2011

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