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Phonetics

model predicting vowel inventories from a balance between maximal perceptual dispersion and the focalization of formants that makes vowels perceptually stable.

In phonetics, dispersion-focalization theory refers to model predicting vowel inventories from a balance between maximal perceptual dispersion and the focalization of formants that makes vowels perceptually stable. This meaning comes from Schwartz (1997) in Journal of Phonetics.[1]

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References

Schwartz, J., Boë, L., Vallée, N., & Abry, C. (1997). The Dispersion-Focalization Theory of vowel systems. Journal of Phonetics, 25(3), 255-286. https://doi.org/10.1006/jpho.1997.0043

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