Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

Abstract Harmonic Grammar (HG) and Optimality Theory (OT) are closely related formal
frameworks for the study of language. In both, the structure of a given language is …

The major goal of the present study is to provide a contribution to the enterprise of
increasing the ties between phonology and phonetics within linguistic theory. With this goal …

Words which are expected to contain the same surface string of segments may, under
identical prosodic circumstances, sometimes be realized with slight differences in duration …

Many theories, in many domains of linguistics, assume that some members of morphological
paradigms are more basic than others. Bases of paradigms are privileged in various ways …

Voiced fricatives are often taken as an example of sound that is 'difficult'to produce. It might
therefore be expected that speakers would choose to simplify them. In English, the most …

A series of arguments is presented showing that words are not stored in memory in a way
that resembles the abstract, phonological code used by alphabetical orthographies or by …

Phonological patterns often have phonetic bases. But whether phonetic substance should
be encoded in synchronic phonological grammar is controversial. We aim to test the …

A growing body of work on exemplar-based theories of learning suggests the possibility of
formal models of phonological representation which will offer deeper explanations of basic …

The present study investigates the extent of word-final devoicing in Russian for three groups
of speakers: monolingual native Russian speakers (4 Ss), native Russian speakers with …