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In order to find out which are the English vowel phonemes the commutation test will be used as before in nuclear words, though this time, unlike in the previous chapter, there is no need to keep strictly to the type of words consisting of non-vocoid, vocoid, non-vocoid.
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Cohen, A. (1971). The Vowel Phonemes of English. In: The Phonemes of English. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2969-8_4
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