Semiautomatic analysis of digital speech collections is transforming the science of
phonetics. Convenient search and analysis of large published bodies of recordings …

The history of English exhibits numerous instances of changes that proceed along
crosslinguistically recurrent pathways, notably the life cycle of phonological processes and …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of/l/-darkening in English, using ultrasound
tongue imaging data from five varieties spoken in the UK. The analysis of near 500 tokens …

Abstract Second-language (L2) learners can benefit from exposure to phonetically variable
speech during computer-based training. Moreover, this training can be effective even for L2 …

This paper presents an analysis of the performance and usability of automatic speech
processing tools on six different varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. The tools …

This study examines the phonetic and phonological knowledge of Spanish and English/l/by
early and late Spanish-English bilinguals along a continuum of language dominance. Forty …

A deep learning Phonet model was evaluated as a method to measure lenition. Unlike
quantitative acoustic methods, recurrent networks were trained to recognize the posterior …

This study examines age of acquisition (AoA) in Spanish-English bilinguals' phonetic and
phonological knowledge of/l/in English and Spanish. In English, the lateral …

This study investigates/l/‐darkening in the Welsh and English speech of bilinguals in North
Wales. Although it is claimed that/l/is dark in all syllable positions in northern varieties of …

Spanish voiced stops/b, d, ɡ/surfaced as fricatives [β, ð, ɣ] in intervocalic position due to a
phonological process known as spirantization or, more broadly, lenition. However …