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The sound of a spherical cow*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2017

Julian Bradfield
Julian Bradfield*
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University of Edinburgh
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E-mail: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk.
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Abstract

I consider the use of computational simulations in phonology, and the benefits and dangers of making abstractions, or failing to make abstractions. I argue that the potential of simulation studies is not yet realised as it could be.

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Phonology , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 347 - 362
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Copyright © Julian Bradfield 2017. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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Footnotes

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I thank Bart de Boer, Paul Boersma, Kateřina Chládková and James Kirby for discussions and comments over the years, as well as attenders at the Phonetic Universals conference in Leipzig in 2010 and the 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting in 2011, where the first versions of the work in §3.3 and §4.2 were presented. I thank the anonymous reviewers for careful and expert commentary on the paper.

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