This study documents the relation between f0 and prevoicing in the production and
perception of plosive voicing in Afrikaans. Acoustic data show that Afrikaans speakers …

It is well known that what are commonly called voicing contrasts in many languages are
accompanied by effects on the fundamental frequency (F0) of a following vowel: roughly, F0 …

An ongoing debate in phonology concerns the extent to which the phonological typology is
shaped by synchronic learning biases. The two best-studied types of synchronic bias are …

Recent research has revealed the effects of orthography on the pronunciation of consonant
durations in the L2 English of L1 Italian speakers (eg the [p] in floppy being pronounced as …

Although the orthographic norm of the standard language has dominated most written
registers of German, social media and other non-standardized digital contexts have recently …

We investigate a seemingly counterintuitive result of language contact: the maintenance of
old German features in the Cimbrian variety of Lusérn, supported by contact with Romance …

El subsistema de las obstruyentes sibilantes del español medieval experimentó un proceso
de reducción fonológica que en el español andaluz dio lugar a un único fonema fricativo …

This paper aims at describing/r/allophony in Tyrolean as spoken in South Tyrol and at
determining whether it can be influenced by the long-term contact with Italian. The analysis …

The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other
explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers …

Zurich German, a High Alemannic dialect spoken in the area of Zurich, has short and long
obstruent series leading to minimal pairs such as []'hood'–[]'honk …