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Constancy and Variation in Speech: Phonetic Realisation and Abstraction

  • Calbert Graham and Brechtje Post
From the journal Phonetica

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*Dr. Calbert Graham, Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DA (UK), E-Mail crg29@cam.ac.uk

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Received: 2018-10-29
Accepted: 2019-01-20
Published Online: 2019-05-26
Published in Print: 2019-05-01

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