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This wide-ranging survey of experimental methods in phonetics and phonology shows the insights and results provided by different methods of investigation, including laboratory-based, statistical, psycholinguistic, computational-modeling, corpus, and field techniques. The five chapters in the first part of the book examine the recent history and interrelations of theory and method. The remaining 18 chapters are organized into parts devoted to four key current areas of research: phonological universals; phonetic variation and phonological change; maintaining, enhancing, and modeling phonological contrasts; and phonological knowledge. The book provides fresh insights into the findings and theoretical advances that emerge from experimental investigation of phonological structure and phonological knowledge, as well as critical perspectives on experimental methods in the perception, production, and modeling of speech.This book will be a valuable asset for all researchers into the sound structure of language, including scholars and advanced students of phonetics, phonology, speech science, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics.

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Author:   Maria-Josep Sole ,  Patrice Speeter Beddor ,  Manjari Ohala
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.005kg
ISBN:  

9780199296675

ISBN 10:   0199296677
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   09 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Theory and Background 1: John Ohala: Methods in Phonology 2: Larry Hyman: Elicitation as Experimental Phonology: Thlantland Lai Tonology 3: Keith Johnson: Decisions and Mechanisms in Exemplar-Based Phonology 4: Klaus Kohler: Beyond Laboratory Phonology: The Phonetics of Speech Communication 5: Jacqueline Vassière: Area Functions and Articulatory Modeling as a Tool for Investigating the Articulatory, Acoustic, and Perceptual Properties of Sounds Across Languages Part II Phonological Universals 6: Didier Demolin: Phonological Universals and the Control and Regulation of Speech Production 7: Ian Maddieson: Issues of Phonological Complexity: Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Syllable Structures, Segment Inventories, and Tone Contrasts 8: Jean-Luc Schwartz, Louis-Jean Böe, and Christian Abry: Linking the Dispersion-Focalization Theory (DFT) and the Maximum Utilization of the Available Distinctive Features (MUAF) Principle in a Perception-for-Action-Control Theory (PACT) Part III Phonetic Variation and Phonological Change 9: Patrice S. Beddor, Anthony Brasher, and Chandan Narayan: Applying Perceptual Methods to the Study of Phonetic Variation and Sound Change 10: Juliette Blevins: Interpreting Misperception: Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder 11: M. Grazia Busà: Coarticulatory Nasalization and Phonological Developments: Data from Italian and English Nasal-Fricative Sequences 12: Olle Engstrand, Johan Frid, and Björn Lindblom: A Perceptual Bridge Between Coronal and Dorsal /r/ 13: Nina Grønnum and Hans Basbøll: Danish Stød: Phonological and Cognitive Issues Part IV Modeling, Maintaining, and Enhancing Phonological Contrasts 14: Patrizia Bonaventura and Osamu Fujimura: Articulatory Movements and Phrase Boundaries 15: Hiroya Fujisaki, Wentao Gu, and Sumio Ohno: Physiological and Physical Bases of the Command-Response Model for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours in Tone Languages. Implications for the Phonology of Tones 16: Terrance Nearey and Peter Assmann: Probabilistic 'Sliding-Template' Models for Indirect Vowel Normalization 17: Rungpat Roengpitya: The Variations, Quantification, and Generalizations of Standard Thai Tones 18: Maria-Josep Solé: Controlled and Mechanical Properties in Speech: a Review of the Literature Part V Phonotactic and Phonological Knowledge 19: Bruce L. Derwing: What's in CVC-Like Things? Ways and Means to Look at Phonological Units Across Languages 20: Sieb Nooteboom and Hugo Quené: The SLIP Technique as a Window on the Mental Preparation of Speech: Some Methodological Considerations 21: Manjara Ohala: Experimental Methods in the Study of Hindi Geminate Consonants 22: Anne Pycha, Sharon Inkelas, and Ronald Sprous: Morphophonemics and the Lexicon: a Case Study from Turkish 23: Eurie Shin: How do Listeners Compensate for Phonology?

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Maria-Josep Solé is Professor of English Phonetics and Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. She has published on speech production, the articulatory and perceptual basis of sound change, cross-linguistic phonological patterns, and the phonetics-phonology interface. She has published in leading scientific journals such as Journal of Phonetics and Language and Speech, and has contributed chapters to the Papers in Laboratory Phonology series. Patrice Speeter Beddor is Professor of Linguistics and currently Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interests are in the areas of speech perception, coarticulation, and the phonetic factors underlying sound change, and her major recent publications focus on the intersection of these areas of inquiry. Manjari Ohala is Professor, and currently Interim Chair of, the Departments of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University. She is the author of Aspects of Hindi Phonology, co-editor of Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, and has published numerous articles on the experimental phonetics/phonology of Hindi.

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