Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (Phonology & Phonetics)

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This book brings together researchers from sociolinguistics, phonetics, and phonology and provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology. In this book, variation at every level of phonological representation is addressed. It contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in theoretical phonology by combining research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations. Frontmatter Contents Introduction to Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes Phonetic variation and gestural specification: Production of Russian consonants Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast: A combined phonetic and phonological account Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners Patterns of lenition in Brazilian Portuguese Silent onsets? An optimality-theoretic approach to French h aspiré words Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German Lexical exceptionality in Florentine Italian troncamento On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation The erosion of a variable process. The case of n-deletion in Ripuarian and Limburg dialects of Dutch Minimal morpheme expression in Dutch dialectology Regional variation in intonation: Conversational instances of the “hat pattern” in Cologne German A model for the quantification of pitch accent realisation Backmatter