Sound Patterns of Spoken Enlglish

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1. Setting the Stage
1.1 Phonetics or Phonology?
1.1.1 More mind than body (fossils again)
1.1.2 A 50/50 mixture
1.1.3 More body than mind
1.1.4 Functional phonology and perception
1.1.5 Have we captured the meaning of 'phonology'?
1.1.6 Influence of phonology on phonetics
1.1.7 Back to basics
1.2 Fast Speech?
1.3 Summary
 
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