Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology 1st Edition by Frank Kügler , Caroline Féry, Ruben Vijver ISBN 311021931X 978-3110219319

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ISBN 10: 311021931X 

ISBN 13: 978-3110219319

Author:  Frank Kügler , Caroline Féry, Ruben Vijver

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 and perceptual cues that contribute to the formation of natural classes of sounds. At the segmental level there are grammatical differences in the production and perception of contextual variation of segments and in the syntagmatic constraints on the combination of segments. At the suprasegmental level the mapping of tones to grammatical functions and vice versa is discussed. Further aspects addressed in this book are factors outside of language: Variation that arises as a result of a particular dialect or of belonging to a certain age group, or variation that is the consequence of language change.

Gradience and variation have always been a central issue in phonetic and sociolinguistic research. Gradience introduces variation in phonology as well. If a phonetic entity can be pronounced in different ways, depending on the environment, prosodic factors or dialectal influences, this ‘gradience’ may introduce ‘variation’, which we understand as a stable state of grammar.

Table of contents: 

• Introduction to Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (p. 8)
  → Sets the theoretical foundation for the book, discussing what gradience and variation mean in the context of phonetic/phonological theory.

• Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes (p. 24)
  → Likely critiques traditional assumptions about natural phonological classes and explores how variation challenges existing constraints or patterns.

• Phonetic variation and gestural specification: Production of Russian consonants (p. 50)
  → Empirical study on how consonantal gestures vary in Russian, possibly using articulatory phonetics.

• Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast: A combined phonetic and phonological account (p. 78)
  → Explores second language (L2) speech perception and how learners process contrasts from a phonetic and phonological perspective.

• Prosodic conditioning, vowel dynamics and sound change (p. 106)
  → Investigates how prosody affects vowel quality over time and leads to sound change.

• Variable quality of the Czech lateral liquid: A perception experiment with young Czech listeners (p. 132)
  → Perceptual study of the /l/ sound variation in Czech.

• Patterns of lenition in Brazilian Portuguese (p. 148)
  → Analysis of weakening processes (like intervocalic consonant weakening) in Brazilian Portuguese.

• Silent onsets? An optimality-theoretic approach to French h aspiré words (p. 170)
  → OT-based explanation of how h aspiré behaves in French, possibly questioning whether it’s phonetically real or just phonological.

• Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German (p. 192)
  → Study on nasal articulation variability, focusing on /ŋ/ and similar segments in Northern German.

• Lexical exceptionality in Florentine Italian troncamento (p. 222)
  → Investigates truncation (troncamento) phenomena and how exceptions are handled in Florentine Italian.

• On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English (p. 254)
  → Child language acquisition focus on dorsal consonants (like /k/, /g/) and how they appear in onset positions.

• Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation (p. 272)
  → Study on how speakers perceive or produce assimilated forms and how this varies with native language knowledge.

• The erosion of a variable process: The case of n-deletion in Ripuarian and Limburg dialects of Dutch (p. 318)
  → Looks at the decline of n-deletion over time in these dialects, tying into language change.

• Minimal morpheme expression in Dutch dialectology (p. 358)
  → Possibly deals with morphological reduction and variation across Dutch dialects.

• Regional variation in intonation: Conversational instances of the “hat pattern” in Cologne German (p. 384)
  → Intonational variation study focusing on a specific pitch pattern in Cologne German.

• A model for the quantification of pitch accent realisation (p. 412)
  → Proposes a quantitative model for how pitch accents are phonetically realized.

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