Distinctive feature enhancement: a review
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We continue the review of some of the basic premises of QuantalEnhancement Theory (Stevens 1972, 1989, etc.) initiated in Clements and Ridouane (2006). While Quantal Theory proposes to account for similarities in feature realisation across speakers and languages, Enhancement Theory proposes to account for regular pat-terns of cross-linguistic variation. In this sense these two theories may be regarded as complementary modules of a more comprehensive feature theory.
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