This paper presents an overview of phonological relationships that are “intermediate”
between contrast and allophony. As has been observed for many years, such intermediate …

This dissertation proposes a model of phonological relationships, the Probabilistic
Phonological Relationship Model (PPRM), that quantifies how predictably distributed two …

This study examines change over time in coarticulatory vowel nasality in both real and
apparent time in Philadelphia English. We measure nasal-adjacent vowels in words from a …

This dissertation addresses the broad question about how phonology and phonetics are
interrelated, specifically how phonetic language changes, which gradually alter the …

The conventional wisdom regarding the diachronic process whereby phonetic phenomena
become phonologized appears to be the'error accumulation'model, so called by Baker …

Abstract In some North American English varieties the diphthong/aɪ/has developed a
distinctively higher nucleus before voiceless consonants and also before a flapped/t/. The …

The distribution of the raised variants of the Canadian English diphthongs is standardly
analyzed as opaque allophony, with derivationally ordered processes of diphthong raising …

Abstract Young Irish-American and Italian-American women from South Philadelphia were
recorded in their senior year of high school and then in their freshman year of college …

This paper presents a probabilistic model of phonological relationships, recasting the
traditional relationships of “contrast” and “allophony” in terms of a gradient scale of …

Dialect emergence or new-dialect formation in intensive contact situations has been the
subject of research for decades. Approaches to dialect emergence have led to a more solid …