The actuation problem asks why a linguistic change occurs in a particular language at a
particular time and space. Responses to this problem are multifaceted. This review …

Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

This study investigates consonant-related F0 perturbations (“CF0”) in French and Italian by
comparing the effects of voiced and voiceless obstruents on F0 to those of voiced sonorants …

This paper explores three aspects of a theory of speech production and perception: quantal
theory, enhancement, and overlap. The section on quantal theory makes the claim that every …

When a vowel follows an obstruent, the fundamental frequency in the first few tens of
milliseconds of the vowel is known to be influenced by the voicing characteristics of the …

This paper offers a novel account of a familiar typological observation, namely the tendency
of phonological inventories to consist of segments that are dispersed through the available …

Understanding the role of prosody in encoding linguistic meaning and in shaping phonetic
form requires the analysis of prosodically annotated speech drawn from a wide variety of …

Tashlhiyt Berber contrasts singletons and geminates in intervocalic as well as in initial and
final positions. This study presents results of an investigation of the phonetic correlates that …

Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions and their boundaries are
generally fuzzy and ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential weighting to …

The phonetics and phonology of consonant–f0 interaction in Shanghai Chinese were
examined to further refine our understanding of consonant–f0 interaction in general. Bi …