Sociophonetics–the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics–is a field that has expanded
rapidly in recent years. A subject that requires both methodological and theoretical …

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German
language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons …

A diverse set of empirical findings indicate that word predictability in context influences the
fine-grained details of both speech production and comprehension. In particular, lower …

The goal of the current study was to explore the temporal organization of six regional
dialects of American English to gain a better understanding of the perceptual impressions of …

Variationist/evolutionary models of phonology assume a causal chain that links biases at the
utterance level to the development and consolidation of abstract phonological patterns over …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to document speech sound development across early
childhood from a dynamic assessment (DA) perspective that captures a breadth of linguistic …

In this chapter, we survey a set of phenomena that have traditionally been given the simple
rubric “final devoicing.” This name, however, clearly conflates a number of different …

This study is an acoustic investigation of the nature and extent of consonant voicing of the
stop/b/in two dialectal varieties of American English spoken in south-central Wisconsin and …

In many varieties of African American English (AAE), glottal stop replacement and deletion of
word-final/t/and/d/results in consonant neutralization, while the underlying voicing distinction …

The term sociophonetics refers to the interface of sociolinguistics and phonetics, and
specifically to the use of modern phonetic methods in the quantitative analysis of language …