Experimental evidence suggests that syllable-final devoicing is often 'incomplete': devoiced
obstruents are phonetically subtly different from underlyingly voiceless ones, and speakers …

This thesis presents an approach to phonological computation and representation which
combines the tenets of substance-free phonology, a framework which implies that …

Although the vowels of many monosyllabic words have been lengthened from Middle High
German to Modern Standard German (eg,[glas]>'glass'), it has only recently (and …

My first encounter with Pomeranian was in the framework of the (Zeeuws) Flemish dialect
spoken in the state of Espírito Santo (Brazil). This dialect, spoken by descendents of Dutch …

Drawing on both rule-based and constraint-based approaches, Voicing in Contrast
examines typological differences in the laryngeal systems of Dutch and English and …

The phonetic properties of fricatives have recently received a great deal of attention (Shadle
1985; Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996: ch. 5; Johnson 1997: ch. 6; Stevens 1998: ch. 8; …

In this paper I argue that the two main families of phonological constraints in Optimality
Theory, markedness and faithfulness constraints can be derived from more basic cognitive …

This chapter investigates the acquisition of obstruent laryngeal contrasts in foreign language
acquisition. The goal is to determine the alignment between the putative universal …

Building on the empirical insights of Beckman, Jessen & Ringen (2013), we compare the
fricatives within the laryngeal systems of Russian and Turkish on the premise that the former …

We recorded older male speakers and younger female speakers of 86 local dialects of
Dutch. Using these data, we analyze and visualize the influence of standard Dutch on …