Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction to Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology 1
4. Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes 17
5. Phonetic variation and gestural specification: Production of Russian consonants 43
6. Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast: A combined phonetic and phonological account 71
7. Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change 99
8. Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners 125
9. Patterns of lenition in Brazilian Portuguese 141
10. Silent onsets? An optimality-theoretic approach to French h aspiré words 163
11. Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German 185
12. Lexical exceptionality in Florentine Italian troncamento 215
13. On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English 247
14. Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation 265
15. The erosion of a variable process. The case of n-deletion in Ripuarian and Limburg dialects of Dutch 311
16. Minimal morpheme expression in Dutch dialectology 351
17. Regional variation in intonation: Conversational instances of the “hat pattern” in Cologne German 377
18. A model for the quantification of pitch accent realisation 405
19. Backmatter 425