This dissertation investigates how glottal stops are produced and perceived, and why they
occur so frequently before word-initial vowels in languages of the world. Specifically, the …

48 seven female speakers from the town of Riverton, located northwest of Huntsville,
Alabama (discussed in Chapter 1). Acoustic measurement (resulting in vowel plots) was the …

This study examines the function of creaky voice through investigating salient occurrences in
sociolinguistic interviews. By identifying different types of embedded frames within the …

This dissertation explores the speech of African American and European American residents
in the District of Columbia, approaching from both variationist and discourse-analytic …

The effect of consonants on the fundamental frequency of adjacent vowels is well
documented both on a diachronic level in tonogenesis as well as on a synchronic phonetic …

“Vulgarity” is a term that may refer to what is offensive, coarse or unrefined, and therefore
necessarily appeals to subjective criteria; vulgarity is in this sense intrinsically ideological …