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 …

Studies of variable lenition patterns converge on two phonetic properties as characteristic of
lenition: reduced duration and increased intensity. However, the causal precedence of the …

Abstract In American English, a glottal stop is sometimes pronounced in place of an
expected syllable coda/t/, and audible glottalization is attested before both/t/and/p/in coda …

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 …

Two experiments test how phrasal prominence influences listeners' perception of vowel
contrasts and how prominence information and vowel formant cues are integrated in …

Predictability has been shown to be associated with many dimensions of variation in
speech, including durational variation and variable omission of segments. However, the …

Glottalisation is an important cue to coda stop voicelessness, particularly for younger
Australian English speakers who utilise glottalisation more than older speakers, suggesting …

Abstract English has multiple potential acoustic cues to coda stop voicing, including the
duration of the preceding vowel, the coda closure duration, and, in some varieties …

Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and
low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …