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Place assimilation is not the result of gestural overlap: evidence from Korean and English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2010

Jongho Jun
Jongho Jun
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Yeungnam University
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In the theory of articulatory phonology Browman & Goldstein (1986, 1990, 1992) claim that place assimilation is mainly the result of the overlap of gestures and the perception of these overlapping gestures as a single gesture. Ohala (1990) makes a similar claim. The present study provides interesting experimental evidence against this explanation of assimilation as a result of gestural overlap and resulting misperception, and for the importance of gestural reduction.

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Phonology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 377 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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