Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors and discussion participants ix
5. Editors’ introduction 1
6. Part I. Perception
7. The listener as a source of sound change 21
8. Perception grammars and sound change 37
9. A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance 57
10. The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change 77
11. Part II. Production
12. The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting 103
13. Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change? 123
14. The gaits of speech 147
15. Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change
16. Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change 167
17. Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback 185
18. Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change 211
19. Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change 235
20. Index of subjects and terms 247