ABSTRACT
In previous chapters we have examined the production of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech. This suggests that we can easily classify all phonetic manifestations into one or other of these categories. However, it becomes clear when we investigate more closely that segments exist of varying degrees of complexity, and phonetic features do not all have identical boundaries. This means we need to look at segments with multiple, co-occurring aspects of articulation, and we need to examine whether segments have clearly identifiable boundaries at all.
