TY - JOUR AU1 - Kohler, K.J. AB - Although the aims of contrastive phonology are clear, there are a number of problems connected with the model of description and with the ontological status of phonological accounts of contrastive similarities or differences. This paper illustrates these problems with the oppositions between the series of /p, t, k/ and /b, d, g/ in the contrastive phonology of French versus German. On the basis of a number of perceptual experiments and results from articulation training, a new contrastive description of these sound phenomena is presented, which arrives at a phonological evaluation through a phonetic analysis of performance, rather than predicting performance from the usual phonological categories. TI - Contrastive Phonology and the Acquisition of Phonetic Skills JF - Phonetica DO - 10.1159/000260025 DA - 1981-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/contrastive-phonology-and-the-acquisition-of-phonetic-skills-8tRAqwRql1 SP - 213 EP - 226 VL - 38 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -