This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co‐variation of vowels using
Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et …

Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic
typology and basic science. Linguistic typology is concerned with the relevant dimensions …

Cross-linguistic phonetic analysis has long been limited by data scarcity and insufficient
computational resources. In the past few years, the availability of large-scale cross-linguistic …

The study of phonetic variation and change has tended to concentrate on particular
variables in isolation, and it has proven challenging to move beyond an analysis of …

The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop
consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations …

Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We
examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds …

Training deep neural networks on well-understood dependencies in speech data can
provide new insights into how they learn internal representations. This paper argues that …

This paper provides a unified phonologically motivated explanation for the movement of
trap, dress, and kit following the low-back merger in North American English (ie, the …

“Structured heterogeneity”, a founding concept of variationist sociolinguistics, puts focus on
the ordered social differentiation in language. We extend the notion of structured …

This is an acoustic and articulatory study of the two rhotic schwas in Southwestern Mandarin
(SWM), ie, the er-suffix (a functional morpheme) and the rhotic schwa phoneme …