Syntax for phoneticians
February 3, 2011 at 8:10 pm noahmotion
Not syntax in any theoretically interesting way, mind you. More an issue of style and clarity.
From Kessinger & Blumstein (1998), an exemplary instantiation of unclarity and infelicitousness: “The increase in syllable duration found for syllables beginning with both voiceless and voiced stops, however, is attributable only in part to increases in VOT.”
Read the paper in vain. You’ll find nary a single syllable beginning with both a voiceless and voiced stop, much less a plurality of them.
– Noah
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