The study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic
research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago …

Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to
coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the …

Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to
discover generalizations about sound patterns by grou** them into categories. They study …

This article examines the influence of phonetic and phonological factors and lexical
frequency on accuracy and error types in the production of non-native phonotactics. In …

Beginning phonetics students are taught that some varieties of American English have two
contrasting reduced vowels, transcribed as [e] and [i], illustrated by the unstressed vowels in …

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-
linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure …

Schwa is often characterized as a weak or reduced vowel. This is based on a number of
generalizations about the cross-linguistic behavior of schwa: Schwa is the outcome of …

The focus of this dissertation is the syntax and morphology of case, and how case interacts
with A-movement and agreement. In chapter 1, I argue on the basis of novel data from …

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

Does second language experience affect first language perception? The present paper
addresses this question in a study of bilingual cue weighting with a focus on perceptual cues …