There has been renewed interest in universals in phonological theory in recent years, highlighting the need to explore the diversity that currently exists in the world's languages. These issues are examined in a series of peer-reviewed papers based on presentations at the Eighth Laboratory Phonology meeting in June, 2002, in New Haven, Connecticut. Results from endangered languages, sign languages, and mainstream languages address issues of acquisition, production and perception as they relate to phonological form.
Author(s): Conference in Laboratory Phonology 2002, Louis M. Goldstein, D. H. Whalen, Catherine T. Best
Series: Phonology and Phonetics
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 692
Table of Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 9
Dedication......Page 15
I. Qualitative and variable faces of phonological competence: Spoken languages......Page 17
"Distinctive phones" in surface representation......Page 19
The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The caseof past-tense formation......Page 43
Dynamics in grammar: Comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen......Page 67
The statistical basis of an unnatural alteration......Page 97
Modeling intanation in English: A probabilistic approach to phonological competence......Page 123
The diachrony of labiality in Trique, and the functional relevance of gradience and variation......Page 149
I. Qualitative and variable faces of phonological competence: Convergences and divergences of signed and spoken languages......Page 169
Effects of language modality on word segmentation: An experimental study of phonological factors in a sign language......Page 171
Phonology, phonetics and the nondominant hand......Page 201
Lexical retrieval in American Sign Language production......Page 229
Phonological priming in British Sign Language......Page 257
I. Qualitative and variable faces of phonological competence: Signed languages......Page 279
Phonetic implementation and phonetic pre-specification in sign language phonology......Page 281
Variabilityin verbal agreement forms across four signed languages......Page 303
Some current claims about sign language phonetics, phonology, and experimental results......Page 331
II. Sources of variation and their role in the acquisition of phonological competence......Page 355
Getting the rhythm right: A cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words......Page 357
Flexibility in the face of incompatible English VOT systems......Page 383
On the scope of phonological learning: Issues arising from socially-structured variation......Page 408
Variation in developing phonologies: Comments on Vihman and colleagues, Docherty and colleagues, and Scobbie......Page 439
III. Knowledge of language-specific organization of speach gestures: Interaction of prosody and gestures......Page 459
Prosody first or prosody last? Evidence from the phonetics of word-final /t/ in American English......Page 461
Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and hiatus resolution in Greek......Page 488
Early vs.late focus: Pitch-peak alignment in two dialects of Serbian and Croatian......Page 511
Manifestation of prosodic structure in articulatory variation: Evidence from lip kinematics in English......Page 535
Relating prosody and dynamic events: Comments on the papers by Cho and Smiljanic......Page 565
III. Knowledge of language-specific organization of speach gestures: Local gesture interaction and perception......Page 579
Syllable position effects and gestural organization: Articulatory evidence from Russian......Page 581
Perceptual salience and palatalization in Russian......Page 604
Integration coarticulation, assimilation, and blending into a model of articulatory constraints......Page 627
Excrescent schwa and vowel laxing: Cross-linguistic responses to conflicting articulatory targets......Page 651
Author index......Page 677
Subject index......Page 683
Language index......Page 687
List of contributors......Page 689
