Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English'phonological structure,
this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old …

The term “vowel epenthesis” can refer to any process in which a vowel is added to an
utterance. Beyond this simple description, however, vowel epenthesis processes vary …

This dissertation presents both a descriptive and a formal account of palatalization patterns
as identified in a balanced sample of 117 languages. I distinguish between two …

Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a
systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical …

Rhotics, or r-sounds, are known to display a large amount of variation, both cross-
linguistically and within particular languages. Dutch is an example of such a language: even …

This paper presents an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Mayan languages. The
focus is primarily descriptive, but the article also attempts to frame the sound patterns of …

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-
linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure …

It has been proposed that Tashlhiyt is a language which allows any segment, including
obstruents, to be a syllable nucleus. The most striking and controversial examples taken as …

This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Skolt Saami, a Finno-Ugric language spoken
primarily in northeast Finland by less than 400 people. The aim of this thesis is to provide an …