This article reviews the role phonology plays in phonetic changes. After first establishing
what kinds of changes qualify as phonetic changes for the purposes of discussion, and
laying out the theoretical outlook that is adopted here, I review the most obvious cases in
which phonology plays a role in phonetic change. These include (a) the way phonological
contrast can lead to phonetic dispersion,(b) the way phonological natural classes can define
a set of segments to undergo a parallel phonetic shift, and (c) how phonological biases may …