The initiation of sound change : perception, production, and social factors / edited by Maria-Josep Solé ; Daniel Recasens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

THE INITIATION OF SOUND CHANGE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword and acknowledgements; List of contributors and discussion participants; Editors' introduction; References; Part I. Perception; The listener as a source of sound change; 1. Introduction; 2. The background; 3. Theories of sound change; 4. Bringing it all together; 5. Further implications and 'spinoff' of the theory; 6. Conclusion; References; Perception grammars and sound change; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature of the input signal; 3. Perception grammars for coarticulated speech.

3.1 Listeners' use of coarticulation in real-word categorization tasks3.2 Listeners' use of coarticulation in categorizing nonsense items; 3.3 Real time processing of coarticulated speech; 4. Perception grammars of coarticulated speech and sound change; References; A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance; 1. Introduction; 2. Vocalization; 2.1 Direct replacement; 2.2 Glide insertion; 2.3 Summary; 3. Vowel shift and /l/ elision processes; 3.1 Shift from /a/ to [f]/[o]; 3.2 Absence of /l/; 3.3 Summary; 4. General interpretation; References.

The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change1. Introduction; 2. The MMN component; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Listeners; 3.2 Creation of stimuli; 3.3 Electroencephalogram (EEG) recording; 3.4 Behavioral task; 4. Results; 4.1 Behavioral study results; 4.2 ERP study results; 4.3 Production and perception; 5. Discussion; References; Part II. Production; The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting; 1. Introduction; 2. The physiological and perceptual basis of diachronic /u/-fronting.

3. Back-vowel fronting in standard Southern British4. The effects of context on diachronic /u, ~/ fronting in SSB; 5. Discussion; References; Natural and unnatural patternsof sound change?; 1. Introduction; 2. Differences in articulatory timing: Fricative loss and epenthetic stops; 3. Postnasal voicing and devoicing; 4. Ways to overcome the 'aerodynamic voicing constraint'; 5. Conclusion; References; The gaits of speech; 1. Introduction; 2. Contextual optimality in H & H theory; 3. Distance traveled and lenition; 4. Increasing distance traveled by the articulator: Velar loops.

5. Increasing the number of gestures produced: Speech errors6. The gaits of speech; 7. Speaking and listening; 8. Conclusion; References; Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change; Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change; 1. Introduction; 2. The perseverance problem, transmission and incrementation in sound change; 3. Prosodic skewing; 4. Evidence from cross-generational transmission; 5. Conclusion and implications; References; Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback; 1. Introduction.

1.1 Motor control.

The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology. This diversity of perspectives contributes to a fruitful cross-fertilization across disciplines and represents an attempt to formulate converging ideas on the factors that lead to sound chan.

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