Approaches that abandon traditional speech categories offer promise for developing statistical descriptions that encapsulate how speech conveys information. Grandparents would be among the beneficiaries.
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Lewicki, M. A signal take on speech. Nature 466, 821–822 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466821a
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