What causes Indonesian to lenite word-final/k/, American English to lenite word-final/t/, and
Spanish to lenite word-final/s/? This article shows that all three observed lenition patterns …

This thesis presents a phonological theory of assimilation as feature spreading. The main
contribution is the idea that association lines between a feature and a root node are of …

This paper argues that processes traditionally classified as lenition fall into at least two
subsets, with distinct phonetic reflexes, formal properties and characteristic contexts. One …

The word level in the sense of Lexical Phonology and Stratal OT, here referred to as the l-
phonemic level, is a linguistically significant level of representation, which captures what …

Previous studies of the phonetics of Danish stops have neglected closure voicing. Danish is
an aspiration language, but the aspirated stops/ptk/are produced with shorter closure …

An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of
duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited …

This dissertation addresses one of the most contested topics in phonology: which factors
influence phonological typology and how to disambiguate these factors. I propose a new …

Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees
really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths …

Research on speech prosody has shown that higher-level phonological constituents can be
examined directly via their influence on low level phonetic processes (Beckman and …

Why do languages have such different phonological processes even though all speakers
share the same cognitive, articulatory and perceptual constraints? American English …