This wide-ranging survey of experimental methods in phonetics and phonology shows the insights and results provided by different methods of investigation, including laboratory-based, statistical, psycholinguistic, computational-modeling, corpus, and field techniques. The five chapters in the first part of the book examine the recent history and interrelations of theory and method. The remaining 18 chapters are organized into parts devoted to four key current areas of research: phonological universals; phonetic variation and phonological change; maintaining, enhancing, and modeling phonological contrasts; and phonological knowledge. The book provides fresh insights into the findings and theoretical advances that emerge from experimental investigation of phonological structure and phonological knowledge, as well as critical perspectives on experimental methods in the perception, production, and modeling of speech. This book will be a valuable asset for all researchers into the sound structure of language, including scholars and advanced students of phonetics, phonology, speech science, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Author(s): Maria-Josep Sole, Patrice Speeter Beddor, Manjari Ohala
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 448
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
PART I. THEORY AND BACKGROUND......Page 20
1. Methods in Phonology......Page 22
2. Elicitation as Experimental Phonology: Thlantlang Lai Tonology......Page 26
3. Decisions and Mechanisms in Exemplar-based Phonology......Page 44
4. Beyond Laboratory Phonology: The Phonetics of Speech Communication......Page 60
5. Area Functions and Articulatory Modeling as a Tool for Investigating the Articulatory, Acoustic, and Perceptual Properties of Sounds across Languages......Page 73
PART II. PHONOLOGICAL UNIVERSALS......Page 92
6. Phonological Universals and the Control and Regulation of Speech Production......Page 94
7. Issues of Phonological Complexity: Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between Syllable Structures, Segment Inventories, and Tone Contrasts......Page 112
8. Linking Dispersion–Focalization Theory and the Maximum Utilization of the Available Distinctive Features Principle in a Perception-for-Action-Control Theory......Page 123
PART III. PHONETIC VARIATION AND PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE......Page 144
9. Applying Perceptual Methods to the Study of Phonetic Variation and Sound Change......Page 146
10. Interpreting Misperception: Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder......Page 163
11. Coarticulatory Nasalization and Phonological Developments: Data from Italian and English Nasal–Fricative Sequences......Page 174
12. A Perceptual Bridge Between Coronal and Dorsal /r/......Page 194
13. Danish Stød: Phonological and Cognitive Issues......Page 211
PART IV. MAINTAINING, ENHANCING, AND MODELING PHONOLOGICAL CONTRASTS......Page 226
14. Articulatory Movements and Phrase Boundaries......Page 228
15. Physiological and Physical Bases of the Command–Response Model for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours in Tone Languages: Implications for the Phonology of Tones......Page 247
16. Probabilistic ‘‘Sliding Template’’ Models for Indirect Vowel Normalization......Page 265
17. The Variations, Quantification, and Generalizations of Standard Thai Tones......Page 289
18. Controlled and Mechanical Properties in Speech: A Review of the Literature......Page 321
PART V. PHONOTACTIC AND PHONOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE......Page 342
19. What’s in CVC-like Things? Ways and Means to Look at Phonological Units Across Languages......Page 344
20. The SLIP Technique as a Window on the Mental Preparation of Speech: Some Methodological Considerations......Page 358
21. Experimental Methods in the Study of Hindi Geminate Consonants......Page 370
22. Morphophonemics and the Lexicon: A Case Study from Turkish......Page 388
23. How Do Listeners Compensate for Phonology?......Page 405
Notes on Contributors......Page 424
References......Page 430
C......Page 476
F......Page 478
L......Page 479
O......Page 480
P......Page 481
S......Page 482
V......Page 483
Y......Page 484
