The Corpus Phonology of English: Multifocal Analyses of Variation

by Anne Przewozny (Editor), Cécile Viollain (Editor), Sylvain Navarro (Editor)

Overview

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. In doing so the book bridges traditionally separate fields such as experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Made up of 12 chapters, it explores a substantial range of linguistic phenomena. It covers auditory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, second language pronunciation and perception, sociophonetics, cross-linguistic comparison of vowel reduction and methodological issues in the construction of phonological corpora. The book presents new data and analyses which demonstrate what phonologists, phoneticians and sociolinguists do with their corpora and show how various theoretical and experimental questions can be explored in light of authentic spoken data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474466998
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/22/2020
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Anne Przewozny is Professor of English Linguistics at Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France

Cécile Viollain is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Universityé Paris Nanterre

Sylvain Navarro is Lecturer in English Linguistics at Universityé de Paris

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain and Sylvain NavarroChapter 1: Gestural delay and gestural reduction. Articulatory variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English, Patrycja Strycharczuk and James ScobbieChapter 2: The production and perception of derived phonological contrasts in selected varieties of English, Emmanuel FerragneChapter 3: The phonological fuzziness of palatalisation in contemporary English: a case of near-phonemes? Olivier GlainChapter 4: Asymmetric acquisition of English liquid consonants by Japanese speakers, Mariko KondoChapter 5: R-sandhi in English and liaison in French: two phenomenologies in the light of the PAC and PFC data, Cécile Viollain , Sylvain Navarro and Jacques DurandChapter 6: A corpora-based study of vowel reduction in two speech styles: a comparison between English and Polish, Małgorzata Kul and Paulina ZydorowiczChapter 7: On ‘because’: phonological variants and their pragmatic functions in a corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English, Daniel HuberChapter 8: On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift, Cécile Viollain and Jacques DurandChapter 9: The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan, Madeline Travelet and Franck ZumsteinChapter 10: Levelling in a northern English variety: the case of face and goat in Greater Manchester, Hugo ChatellierChapter 11: A study of rhoticity in Boston: results from a PAC survey, Sylvain NavarroChapter 12: A study of /t/ flapping in American English broadcast, Bente Hannisdal