Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables x
5. List of Contributors xii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. Gestural Delay and Gestural Reduction: Articulatory Variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English 9
9. 2. The Production and Perception of Derived Phonological Contrasts in Selected Varieties of English 30
10. 3. The Phonological Fuzziness of Palatalisation in Contemporary English: A Case of Near-phonemes? 50
11. 4. Asymmetric Acquisition of English Liquid Consonants by Japanese Speakers 74
12. 5. R-sandhi in English and Liaison in French: Two Phenomenologies in the Light of the PAC and PFC Data 98
13. 6. A Corpora-based Study of Vowel Reduction in Two Speech Styles: A Comparison between English and Polish 127
14. 7. On ‘Because’: Phonological Variants and their Pragmatic Functions in a Corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English 147
15. 8. On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift 177
16. 9. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan 200
17. 10. Levelling in a Northern English Variety: The Case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester 221
18. 11. A Study of Rhoticity in Boston: Results from a PAC Survey 238
19. 12. A Corpus-based Study of /t/ flapping in American English Broadcast Speech 256
20. Index 277