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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2020 May 13;48(1):31–54. doi: 10.1017/S0305000920000094

Table 2.

Durational and coarticulatory properties of CV sequences in nonwords and real words

Mainstream American English African American English

Mean (SD) Median Mean (SD) Median
CV duration
real words 305.68(73) ms 296.41 245.67(55) 247.56
nonwords 332.50(87) 318.52 264.99(64) 261.47

CV coarticulation
real words 29.83(12) ms 30.00 25.77(10) 25.50
nonwords 29.48(12) 30.00 26.23(9) 28.50