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Syllable structure and phonetic models*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Ian Maddieson  and
Kristin Precoda
Ian Maddieson
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Kristin Precoda
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Through construction of predictive models, phoneticians are making increasingly sophisticated attempts to account for certain aspects of the phonological structure of languages from very general principles(Stevens 1989; Lindblom 1984; Ohala 1990, 1992).

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Phonology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 45 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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