This study examines the origin, progression, and impact of a sound change in Seoul Korean
where the primary cue to a stop contrast in phrase-initial position is shifting from VOT to f0 …

This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to
investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel …

The chapter is concerned with how the mechanisms of human speech processing can
occasionally give rise to historical sound change. The starting point is the origin of sound …

According to usage-based models of phonology, the more frequently a word is used and
perceived in accented pronunciation variants, the more exemplars of accented tokens are …

The current study investigates the extent to which the phonological features of a first
language (L1) influence the perception of prominence among students of a second …

Sociophonetics has grown rapidly in recent years, although to some extent the field lacks a
consolidated aim. Sociolinguists use its name for any language variation project that …

This article explores the acquisition of Japanese vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by
Cantonese learners. Our goal is to examine whether transfer from first language (L1) is …

Diachronic change in vowel length contrast in North Kyungsang Korean* Page 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.17959/sppm.2018.24.3.273
273 Diachronic change in vowel length contrast in North Kyungsang Korean* Hyun-ju Kim (The …

The term aegyo is often defined as a form of performative cuteness comprising a range of
linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors (K. Moon, 2013; Puzar & Hong, 2018). Previous …

ABSTRACT A merger exists in Australian English in which/el/is realized as [æl] for a number
of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some observations of/æl/raising to …