German onsets allow a consonant cluster spelt, as in Qualm'fume'. While it has been
traditionally assumed that this orthographic form corresponds to a sequence of a …

This study's purpose was to analyse the influence of neutralisation on the perception of
European Portuguese (EP) close-mid and open-mid vowels, and the gradient between …

In studies of song corpora, longer vowels have been shown to be preferentially aligned with
longer notes in textsetting. Here we test this alignment preference in English in an …

The process by which gradient acoustic cues are discretely categorized as mental
phonological representations seems to be effortless for native speakers. For second …

This thesis explores the phenomenon of/t/affrication before/ɹ/in American English. Over the
past several decades, linguists have observed that [t] has become more often pronounced …

The debate on how bilingual and monolingual speech differs has been ongoing since the
creation of linguistics as a scientific field. In this thesis, Spanish-English bilingual and …