Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Contents XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. 1. Introduction, or: why rethink reduction? 1
7. 2. Exploring variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic, social, and cognitive factors 25
8. 3. Reduction in native and non-native read and spontaneous speech 73
9. 4. Discovering speech reductions across speaking styles and languages 101
10. 5. Qualitative and quantitative aspects of phonetic variation in Dutch eigenlijk 129
11. 6 .Quantifying phonetic variation: Landmark labelling of imitated utterances 164
12. 7. Syllable structure, automatic syllabification and reduction phenomena 205
13. 8. Speech inversion using naturally spoken data 243
14. 9. Rethinking reduction and canonical forms 277
15. Editor Biographies 303
16. Index 305