Six arbitrarily chosen hypotheses derived from impressionistic phonetic examinations of English monosyllabic CVNC and CVC utterances were tested instrumentally, using a Frøkjar-Jensen Aerometer. Validation by correlation was found to a considerable degree for all of them and expected peculiarities in the data suggest that other parameters such as vowel quality must be considered in further experimentation.
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