This study explores the relationship between prosodic strengthening and linguistic contrasts
in English by examining temporal realization of nasals (N-duration) in CVN# and# NVC, and …

It has long been understood that speakers produce and listeners perceive non-random,
systematic phonetic variants that serve as the raw material for sound change. This …

In some languages, there is a diachronic correspondence between nasal and breathy
sounds, whose origin is often attributed to the acoustic similarities between nasal and …

There is debate about how coarticulation is represented in speakers' mental grammar, as
well as the role that coarticulation plays in explaining synchronic and diachronic sound …

This study investigates focus and boundary effects on Korean nasal consonants and vowel
nasalization. Under focus, nasal consonants lengthen in CV N# but shorten in# N VC …

It is hypothesized that the phonological status of a phonetic feature across languages
predicts patterns of coarticulatory variation. In French, vowel nasality encodes lexical …

This paper compares anticipatory nasal coarticulation in American English, French, and
German. These languages differ in whether nasality is contrastive (French), phonologized …

This dissertation explores the interaction of reduplication and segmental mutation. Previous
studies have shown that both mutation and reduplication can be understood as purely …

Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of
anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by previous aerodynamic and acoustic analyses …

Final obstruent devoicing is common in the world's languages and constitutes a clear case
of parallel phonological evolution. Final obstruent voicing, in contrast, is claimed to be rare …