Phonemic vs. Derived Glides
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Acknowledgements: Research for this paper was conducted at the University of Washington with the help of two dissertation fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the Association of Women in Science. Partial preparation of this manuscript was supported while on a postdoctoral training grant from the National Institutes of Health to Indiana University (NIHNIDCD T32 Training Grant DC-00012 and NIH-NIDCD Research Grant R01 DC-00111). I would like to thank Ellen Kaisse, Sharon Hargus, Ioana Chitoran, Andrew Nevins, Jaye Padgett, and the other presenters of the LSA workshop on the phonetics and phonology of glides for their useful comments and Adam Buchwald, Ioana Chitoran, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on a previous draft. All remaining errors are my own.
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