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Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. In doing so the book bridges traditionally separate fields such as experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Made up of 12 chapters, it explores a substantial range of linguistic phenomena. It covers auditory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, second language pronunciation and perception, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic comparison of vowel reduction and methodological issues in the construction of phonological corpora. The book presents new data and analyses which demonstrate what phonologists, phoneticians and sociolinguists do with their corpora and show how various theoretical and experimental questions can be explored in light of authentic spoken data.

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Author:   Anne Przewozny (Professor of English Linguistics, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) ,  Cécile Viollain (Lecturer, Université Paris Nanterre) ,  Sylvain Navarro (Lecturer, Université de Paris)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.674kg
ISBN:  

9781474466998

ISBN 10:   1474466990
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   22 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain and Sylvain NavarroChapter 1: Gestural delay and gestural reduction. Articulatory variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English, Patrycja Strycharczuk and James ScobbieChapter 2: The production and perception of derived phonological contrasts in selected varieties of English, Emmanuel FerragneChapter 3: The phonological fuzziness of palatalisation in contemporary English: a case of near-phonemes? Olivier GlainChapter 4: Asymmetric acquisition of English liquid consonants by Japanese speakers, Mariko KondoChapter 5: R-sandhi in English and liaison in French: two phenomenologies in the light of the PAC and PFC data, Cécile Viollain , Sylvain Navarro and Jacques DurandChapter 6: A corpora-based study of vowel reduction in two speech styles: a comparison between English and Polish, Małgorzata Kul and Paulina ZydorowiczChapter 7: On ‘because’: phonological variants and their pragmatic functions in a corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English, Daniel HuberChapter 8: On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift, Cécile Viollain and Jacques DurandChapter 9: The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan, Madeline Travelet and Franck ZumsteinChapter 10: Levelling in a northern English variety: the case of face and goat in Greater Manchester, Hugo ChatellierChapter 11: A study of rhoticity in Boston: results from a PAC survey, Sylvain NavarroChapter 12: A study of /t/ flapping in American English broadcast, Bente Hannisdal

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Anne Przewozny is Professor of English Linguistics at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France Cécile Viollain is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université Paris Nanterre Sylvain Navarro is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Université de Paris

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