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P. Boersma
2008
The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammarsPDF
Phonology 25(02):217--270, 2008
This paper reconciles the standpoint that language users do not aim at improving their sound systems with the observation that languages seem to improve their sound systems. If learners optimise their perception by gradually ranking their cue constraints, and reuse ...