Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology

Edited by: Frank Kügler , Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver

Volume 14 in the series Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219326

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This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics. It contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in theoretical phonology by combing research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations. Variation is inherent to language, and one of the aims of phonological theory is to describe and explain the mechanisms underlying variation at every level of phonological representation. Variation below the segment concerns articulatory, acoustic and perceptual cues that contribute to the formation of natural classes of sounds. At the segmental level there are grammatical differences in the production and perception of contextual variation of segments and in the syntagmatic constraints on the combination of segments. At the suprasegmental level the mapping of tones to grammatical functions and vice versa is discussed. Further aspects addressed in this book are factors outside of language: Variation that arises as a result of a particular dialect or of belonging to a certain age group, or variation that is the consequence of language change.

Gradience and variation have always been a central issue in phonetic and sociolinguistic research. Gradience introduces variation in phonology as well. If a phonetic entity can be pronounced in different ways, depending on the environment, prosodic factors or dialectal influences, this ‘gradience’ may introduce ‘variation’, which we understand as a stable state of grammar.

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Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry, Ruben van de Vijver, University of Potsdam, Germany.

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Introduction to Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry and Ruben Vijver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes Jeff Mielke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Phonetic variation and gestural specification: Production of Russian consonants Alexei Kochetov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast: A combined phonetic and phonological account Silke Hamann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons and Robert Allen Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners Šárka Šimáčková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Patterns of lenition in Brazilian Portuguese Thaïs Cristófaro-Silva and Daniela Oliveira Guimarães Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Silent onsets? An optimality-theoretic approach to French h aspiré words Christoph Gabriel and Trudel Meisenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German Caroline Féry, Constance Hohmann and Katharina Stähle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Lexical exceptionality in Florentine Italian troncamento Judith Meinschaefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English Ruben Vijver, Barbara Höhle and Susan Ott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation Isabelle Darcy, Franck Ramus, Anne Christophe, Katherine Kinzler and Emmanuel Dupoux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The erosion of a variable process. The case of n-deletion in Ripuarian and Limburg dialects of Dutch Frans Hinskens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Minimal morpheme expression in Dutch dialectology Marc Oostendorp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Regional variation in intonation: Conversational instances of the “hat pattern” in Cologne German Pia Bergmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
A model for the quantification of pitch accent realisation Frank Kügler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Phoneticians, Phonologists, Psycholinguists, as well as Advanced Students of Linguistics.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 430
Keywords: Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics

eBook

Published: August 17, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219326

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219319