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Imperceptible incomplete neutralization: Production, non-identifiability, and non-discriminability in American English flapping by Braver, Aaron

“…•In a production study, vowels before /d/-flaps are shown to be longer than those before /t/-flaps.•Listeners show poor performance on an identification…”
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Durational properties of emphatically lengthened consonants in Japanese by Kawahara, Shigeto, Braver, Aaron

“…Languages can make use of phonetic duration to signal two kinds of meanings. The first is a lexical, phonological contrast. For example, in Japanese [kata]…”
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The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa by Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver

“…Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization.  When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes…”
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Neutralization of underlying vs. derived “unnatural” palatals in Xhosa by Braver, Aaron

“…Xhosa (Bantu) has an “unnatural” process of palatalization—contrary to typological expectations, it is triggered by [w], but not [i] or [j], and applies only…”
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The Efficacy of Gesture on Second Language Pronunciation: An Exploratory Study of Handclapping as a Classroom Instructional Tool by Iizuka, Takehiro, Nakatsukasa, Kimi, Braver, Aaron

“…In this study, we examined the efficacy of gestures for the acquisition of L2 segmental phonology. Despite teachers’ frequent use of gestures in the classroom…”
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Multisensory Integration of Visual and Auditory Signals during Second Language Learning by Liang, Guangsheng, Nguyen, Vinh, Nakatsukasa, Kimi, Braver, Aaron, Dang, Tommy, Scolari, Miranda

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Degrees of incompleteness in neutralization: Paradigm uniformity in a phonetics with weighted constraints by Braver, Aaron

“…This dissertation presents two case studies on incomplete neutralization (IN): flapping in American English (AmE) and monomoraic lengthening in Japanese. I…”
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