It is uncontroversial that morphological processes can change phonological surface
representations. However, some empirical evidence also suggests that morphological …

The fronting of the two high-back vowels/uː/and/ʊ/in Southern British English is very well
documented, but mainly in the acoustic domain. This paper presents articulatory …

In this paper, we present a novel computational approach to the analysis of accent variation.
The case study is dialect levelling in the North of England, manifested as reduction of accent …

Abstract English/ɹ/is known to exhibit covert variability, with tongue postures ranging from
bunched to retroflex, as well as various degrees of lip protrusion and compression. Because …

'Vocalization'is a label commonly used to describe an ongoing change in progress affecting
coda/l/in multiple accents of English. The label is directly linked to the loss of consonantal …

It has been hypothesized that morphologically-complex words are mentally stored in a
decomposed form, often requiring online composition during processing. Morphologically …

This chapter investigates how morphologically complex words contribute to our knowledge
of what is stored in the mental lexicon. We first present the assumptions about lexical …

In many English varieties,/l/is produced differently in onsets and codas. Compared with
“light” syllable-initial realizations,“dark” syllable-final variants involve reduced tongue tip …

This thesis is a sociophonetic and phonological study of velar nasals in the North West of
England, concerned specifically with the variable presence of [SPECIAL CHARACTERS …

So-called 'fake'or derived geminates differ in the extent to which they behave like lexical
geminates, both across and within languages. Data that enable us to study the gestural as …