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Trecca, Fabio; McCauley, Stewart M.; Andersen, Sofie Riis; Bleses, Dorthe; Basbøll, Hans; Højen, Anders; Madsen, Thomas O.; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie Bjønness; Christiansen, Morten H. – Language Learning, 2019
Research has shown that contoids (phonetically defined consonants) may provide more robust and reliable cues to syllable and word boundaries than vocoids (phonetically defined vowels). Recent studies of Danish, a language characterized by frequent long sequences of vocoids in speech, have suggested that the reduced occurrence of contoids may make…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Phonetics, Cues, Linguistic Theory