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 …

This dissertation addresses one of the most contested topics in phonology: which factors
influence phonological typology and how to disambiguate these factors. I propose a new …

This thesis is an articulatory investigation into phonological variation and change in
English/l/-darkening. Although syllable-based accounts of/l/-darkening state that light [l] …

Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. Unstressed vowels in
Uspanteko often delete, though deletion is variable within and across speakers. Deletion …

The research objectives of this dissertation are:(1) to empirically investigate the origin
behind two (contact) features of Catalonian Spanish,[ł] and [z], inquiring the role of specific …

During speech perception, listeners compensate for phonological rules of their language.
For instance, English place assimilation causes green boat to be typically pronounced as …

Although select experimental studies have sought to quantify the degree of
intervocalic/s/voicing (ie, los otros' the others'[lo. zó. tros]) in Andean varieties of Spanish …

This paper investigates the acoustic aspects of voicing assimilation in Hungarian and
Slovak, paying special attention to the position before the sonorant consonants/m/and/l …

This paper presents two cases of lexically gradient phonotactic restrictions that operate
against what would be phonetically natural: Tarma Quechua and Berawan. The paper …

In the literature of laryngeal phonology Romance languages are considered voice
languages, exhibiting a binary distinction between a voiced lenis and a voiceless fortis set of …