First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an
in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The …

Rhotics and laterals pattern together in a variety of ways that suggest that they form a
phonological class (Walsh-Dickey 1997), yet capturing the relevant set of consonants and …

Electropalatographic and acoustic data reported in this study show differences in closure
location and degree, dorsopalatal contact size, closure duration, relative timing of events …

The present study reports on an acoustic analysis of alveolar laterals in two contact
languages (Catalan and Spanish) as produced by two groups of Catalan–Spanish …

This is an electropalatographic and acoustic study of the production and coarticulatory
characteristics of the alveolar tap/J/and the alveolar trill/r/in Catalan VCV sequences. The …

In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between
three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first …

Dorsopalatal contact and F2 data for speakers of dialectal groups with dark [l](Majorcan
Catalan, Eastern Catalan) and clear [l](German, Catalan from the València region) provide …

This study investigates/l/‐darkening in the Welsh and English speech of bilinguals in North
Wales. Although it is claimed that/l/is dark in all syllable positions in northern varieties of …

In the first years of life, children differ greatly from adults in the temporal organization of their
speech gestures in fluent language production. However, dissent remains as to the …

This article examines the co‐occurring realization of two sociophonetic variables within a
style—the LOT vowel in English and word‐initial/l/—to explore the link between articulatory …