Although it was the focus of several publications by Carroll Reed in the 1950s and early
1960s, English spoken in the Pacific Northwestern United States (PNWE) has received …

In a variety of languages, changes in tongue height and breathiness have been observed to
covary with nasalization in both phonetic and phonemic vowel nasality. It has been argued …

Dialects of Spanish in the Caribbean and southern Spain are described as “switching”
liquids in syllable-final position, resulting in the neutralization of the two sounds. This …

Using ultrasound technique, this study revealed certain previously undocumented tongue
behaviours of Mandarin vowels/a/,/i/and/u/. The results were achieved by using a modified …

What are the factors that contribute to (or inhibit) diachronic sound change? While
acoustically motivated sound changes are well-documented, research on the articulatory …

There has been a long-standing debate regarding the featural representation of'voiced-
aspirated'stops. Traditional models, including Laryngeal Realism (Honeybone, 2005; …

6.6. 1. Answers to research question 4: How are liquids represented in phonology?…………
…………………………………………… 361 6.6. 2. Answers to research question 5: What …

While the acoustic characteristics of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS) are well
documented, research on the articulatory component of this shift is comparatively limited …

What are the factors that shape linguistic sound systems? Perceptibility of the acoustic signal
has long been argued to play a role in phonological organization. Some theories of …

While the acoustic characteristics of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCVS) are well
documented, research on the articulatory components of this shift is comparatively limited …