Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 307-319 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Canadian Journal of Linguistics |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- language
- linguistics
- phonetics
- phonology