The corpus phonology of English : multifocal analyses of vVariation / edited by Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain and Sylvain Navarro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Przewozny, Anne, editor.

Viollain, Cécile, editor.

Navarro, Sylvain, 1984- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Spoken English.

English language.

English language--Variation.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Gestural Delay and Gestural Reduction: Articulatory Variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English

2. The Production and Perception of Derived Phonological Contrasts in Selected Varieties of English

3. The Phonological Fuzziness of Palatalisation in Contemporary English: A Case of Near-phonemes?

4. Asymmetric Acquisition of English Liquid Consonants by Japanese Speakers

5. R-sandhi in English and Liaison in French: Two Phenomenologies in the Light of the PAC and PFC Data

6. A Corpora-based Study of Vowel Reduction in Two Speech Styles: A Comparison between English and Polish

7. On ‘Because’: Phonological Variants and their Pragmatic Functions in a Corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English

8. On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift

9. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan

10. Levelling in a Northern English Variety: The Case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester

11. A Study of Rhoticity in Boston: Results from a PAC Survey

12. A Corpus-based Study of /t/ flapping in American English Broadcast Speech

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

ISBN:

9781474467018

1474467016

OCLC:

1312725999