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Phonological Processes in Phonotactics: Evidence from Casual Speech

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Complexity in Polish Phonotactics

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The core theme of this chapter is the study of phonostylistic process in casual speech in native speakers of Polish. Emphasis is placed on processes which are held accountable in word-initial and word-final consonant clusters, such as deletion, substitution or insertion.

We need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon.

(Benjamin Tucker and Mirjam Ernestus 2016)

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Orzechowska, P. (2019). Phonological Processes in Phonotactics: Evidence from Casual Speech. In: Complexity in Polish Phonotactics. Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7299-5_5

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