There are still crucial gaps in our knowledge about developmental paths taken by children to
adult-like speech motor control. Mature control of articulators during speaking is manifested …

Many languages make a two-way laryngeal contrast in obstruents, but the phonological and
phonetic characterization of these contrasts continues to be controversial. In English …

The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a protocol for measuring coarticulation
using tongue surface outline data derived from ultrasound imaging. Ultrasound and acoustic …

The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic/ðiː/and
preconsonantal/ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in …

Over a century of phonetic research has established the cross-linguistic existence of the so
called “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be shorter when followed by voiceless stops …

This study proposes a protocol for assessing speech motor control in children using
maximum performance tasks with simultaneous acoustic and ultrasound recording. The …

The interpretation of a variety of different linguistic expressions show sensitivity to
phonological prominence, among them quantificational adverbs, determiner quantifiers …

There have been a number of studies which compared coarticulatory patterns in children
and adults, but these studies have produced conflicting results, particularly with respect to …

This dissertation focusses on the socalled “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be
shorter when followed by voiceless stops and to be longer when followed by voiced stops …

V 1. V 2 hiatus is disallowed in many languages. In several varieties of English, when V 1 is
non-high, hiatus may be resolved by glottalization or/ɹ/insertion. However, it is not well …