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Peer reviewedTree, Jean E. Fox; Clark, Herbert H. – Cognition, 1997
Examined large corpus of spontaneous English conversation for pronunciation of "the" and speech patterns immediately following. Found that speakers use "thiy" (versus "thuh") pronunciation to signal immediate suspension of speech to deal with a problem in production; problems were at many levels of production, including articulation, word…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Function Words
