Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change

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Speech Dynamics

Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change

Edited by: Felicitas Kleber and Tamara Rathcke

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 36 | Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

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The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest puzzles in the study of language. Even though plentiful examples exist to suggest that dynamics of synchronic variation and diachronic change are tightly interconnected, a unified theory to account for language change in its relationship to all layers of synchronic variation remains a desideratum. This volume compiles new evidence from articulatory, acoustic, auditory, sociolinguistic, and phonological analyses of segmental and prosodic data and computational modelling, and offers a refreshing theoretical angle on the ongoing debates in language change. The volume is divided into three sections, each focusing on one aspect of speech dynamics – the historical, the emerging and the theoretical, each making a step toward a unified view of speech dynamics at the interface of synchronic variation and diachronic change. The large range of methodologies and theories represented in this book will appeal to scholars from a variety of linguistic fields with an interest in speech dynamics, including phoneticians, phonologists, sociolinguists, typologists, computational and historical linguists.

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Felicitas Kleber, University of Munich; Tamara Rathcke, University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
On the nature of speech dynamics: approaches to studying synchronic variation and diachronic change Felicitas Kleber and Tamara Rathcke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1: Empirical perspectives on diachronic change
Fifty years of monophthong and diphthong shifts in Mainstream Australian English Felicity Cox, Sallyanne Palethorpe and Joshua Penney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Coarticulation guides sound change: an acoustic-phonetic study of real-time change in word-initial /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian Rachel Macdonald and Jane Stuart-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
The impact of automated phonetic alignment and formant tracking workflows on sound change measurement C. I. Watson, Z. E. Evans, E. Ballard, B. Ross and S. Cassidy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
One place, two speech communities: differing responses to sound change in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian English in a small rural town Debbie Loakes, Janet Fletcher and Josh Clothier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
Prosodic change in 100 years: the fall of the rise-fall in an Albanian variety Enkeleida Kapia and Felicitas Kleber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Part 2: Factors conditioning synchronic variation
Control of larynx height in vowel production revisited: a real-time MRI study Philip Hoole and Marianne Pouplier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Sheila’s roses (are in the paddick): reduced vowels in Australian English Andrew Butcher and Hywel Stoakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
The future of the queen: how to pronounce “König✶innen” ‘gender-neutrally’ in German Christine Mooshammer and Malte Belz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Synchronic variation and diachronic change: mora-counting and syllable-counting dialects in Japanese Haruo Kubozono Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Reconstructing the timeline of a consonantal change in a German dialect: evidence from agent-based modeling Markus Jochim and Felicitas Kleber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Part 3: Theoretical approaches at the interface between synchronic variation and diachronic change
On (mis)aligned innovative perception and production norms Georgia Zellou and Patrice Speeter Beddor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Phonological patterns and dependency relations may arise from aerodynamic factors Maria-Josep Solé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
Actuation without production bias James Kirby and Morgan Sonderegger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Understanding the role of broadcast media in sound change Tamara Rathcke, Chiara Castellano and Massimiliano Canzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Connecting prosody and duality of patterning in diachrony, typology, phylogeny, and ontogeny Mary E. Beckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	453
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483

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eBook published on:

October 7, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783110765328

Hardcover published on:

October 7, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110765199

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

6

Main content:

484

Illustrations:

63

Coloured Illustrations:

21

Tables:

56

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765328

eBook ISBN: 9783110765328

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110765199

Keywords for this book

Synchronic variation; Diachronic change; Historical linguistics; Sound change; Mutation (Phonetics)

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Scholars and students of Phonetics, Phonology, Linguistic Typology, Sociolinguistics, Historical & Computational Linguistics

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