The natural tendency for language variation, intensified by Spanish's territorial growth, has
driven sibilant changes and mergers across the Spanish-speaking world. This article aims to …

It has been claimed that the long established neutralization of the voicing distinction in
domain final position in German is phonetically incomplete. However, many studies that …

Despite previous studies on Eastern Andalusian Spanish, interest in this geolect boomed
only after the theory of vowel doubling was posited for this variety of Spanish. According to …

The present study addresses the occurrence of affrication in clusters other than/st/in Western
Andalusian Spanish, by means of production and perception tasks comprising/st/,/kt …

This dissertation focuses on Highland Ecuadorian Spanish (HES), more specifically in the
city of Loja, exploring how linguistic and social factors interact to condition a sound change …

Abstract Eastern Andalusian Spanish neutralises consonants in coda, although despite the
neutralisation of most coda consonants, phonemic value has only been given to vowels …

Neutralization in Korean involves a large number of oppositions, and affects a significant
portion of the lexicon. Nonetheless, it induces remarkably little homophony. These highly …

This dissertation investigates the role of grammatical versus methodological influences in
the production and perception of final devoicing in experimentally-elicited speech from …

A number of researchers have contested the completeness of several neutralization
phenomena, including final devoicing in German. These ideas received a fair amount of …

This dissertation investigates the interaction between phonetic change, representational
change, and contrast formation. Sound changes do not usually affect the number of …