Flexibility in the face incompatible English VOT systems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Dedication xv
5. I. Qualitative and variable faces of phonological competence
6. "Distinctive phones" in surface representation 3
7. The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of the past-tense formation 27
8. Dynamics in grammar: Comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen 51
9. The statistical basis of an unnatural alternation 81
10. Modeling intonation in English: A probabilistic approach to phonological competence 107
11. The diachrony of labiality in Trique, and the functional relevance of gradience and variation 133
12. Effects of language modality on word segmentation: An experimental study of phonological factors in a sign language 155
13. Phonological, phonetics and the nondominant hand 185
14. Lexical retrieval in American Sign Language production 213
15. Phonological priming in British Sign Language 241
16. Phonetic implementation and phonetic pre-specification in sign language phonology 265
17. Variability in verbal agreement forms across four signed languages 287
18. Some current claims about sign language phonetics, phonology, and experimental results 315
19. II. Sources of variation and their role in the acquisition of phonological competence
20. Getting the rhytm right: A cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words 341
21. Flexibility in the face incompatible English VOT systems 367
22. On the scope of phonological learning: Issues arising from socially-structured variation 393
23. Variation in developing phonologies: Comments on Vihman and colleagues, Docherty and colleagues, and Scobbie 423
24. III. Knowledge of language-specific organization of speech gestures
25. Prosody first or prosody last? Evidence from the phonetics of word-final /t/ in American English 445
26. Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and hiatus resolution in Greek 473
27. Early vs. late focus: Pitch-peak alignment in two dialects of Serbian and Croatian 495
28. Manifestation of prosodic structure in articulatory variation: Evidence from lip kinematics in English 519
29. Relating prosody and dynamic events: Comments on the papers by Cho and Smiljanić 549
30. Syllable position effects and gestural organization: Articulatory evidence from Russia 565
31. Perceptual salience and palatalization in Russian 589
32. Integrating coarticulation, assimilation, and blending into a model of articulatory constraints 611
33. Excrescent schwa and vowel laxing: Cross-linguistic: responses to conflicting articulatory targets 635
34. Backmatter 661