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Peer reviewedFaber, Alice; Di Paolo, Marianna – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Argues that statistical analysis of the potential distinctiveness of near-merged contrastive pairs must simultaneously take into account several acoustical dimensions. Discriminant analysis of the speech of five Utah speakers distinguished near-merged contrasts but not homophones, suggesting that discriminant analysis is useful in assessing…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Comparative Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Language Variation
