Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology / edited by Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry, Ruben van de Vijver.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics. It contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in theoretical phonology by combing research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations. Variation is inherent to language, and one of the aims of phonological theory is to describe and explain the mechanisms underlying variation at every level of phonological representation. Variation below the segment concerns articulatory, acoustic.

Introduction to variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology / Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry & Ruben van de Vijver -- Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes / Jeff Mielke -- Phonetic variation and gestural specification: production of Russian consonants / Alexei Kochetov -- Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast: a combined phonetic and phonological account / Silke Hamann -- Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change / Ewa Jacewicz, Joseph Salmons & Robert Allen Fox -- Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners / Šárka Šimáčková -- Patterns of lenition in Brazilian Portuguese / Thaïs Cristófaro-Silva, Daniela Oliveira Guimarães -- Silent onsets? An optimality-theoretic approach to French h aspiré words / Christoph Gabriel & Trudel Meisenburg -- Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German / Caroline Féry, Constance Hohmann & Katharina Stähle -- Lexical exceptionality in Florentine Italian troncamento / Judith Meinschaefer -- On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English / Ruben van de Vijver, Barbara Höhle & Susan Ott -- Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation / Isabelle Darcy [and others] -- The erosion of a variable process: The case of n-deletion in Ripuarian and Limburg dialects of Dutch / Frans Hinskens -- Minimal morpheme expression in Dutch dialectology / Marc van Oostendorp -- Regional variation in intonation: conversational instances of the 'hat pattern' in Cologne German / Pia Bergmann -- A model for the quantification of pitch accent realisation / Frank Kügler.

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