This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation
and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same …

Distinguished sociolinguist Peter Trudgill here presents a controversial new theory about
dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. He examines the genesis of Latin …

In New Zealand English there is a merger-in-progress of the near and square diphthongs.
This paper investigates the consequences of this merger for speech perception. We report …

The term TOBI has come to be used in two different ways. Originally, it was the name of an
annotation system, developed in the period 1991 to 1994, which was designed for use in …

Two sets of data are discussed in terms of an exemplar-resonance model of the lexicon.
First, a cross-linguistic review of vowel formant measurements indicate that phonetic …

Recent research has been concerned with whether speech accommodation is an automatic
process or determined by social factors (eg Trudgill 2008). This paper investigates phonetic …

Niedzielski (1999) reports on an experiment which demonstrates that individuals in Detroit
'hear'more Canadian Raising in the speech of a speaker when they think that speaker is …

The extent to which it is necessary to model the dynamic behavior of vowel formants to
enable vowel separation has been the subject of debate in recent years. To investigate this …

This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of some vowels from the annual Christmas
broadcasts produced by Queen Elizabeth II over a 50-year period in order to investigate …

We evaluate a vowel formant normalisation technique that allows direct visual and statistical
comparison of vowel triangles for multiple speakers of different sexes, by calculating for …