Visual Speech Perception Cues Constrain Patterns of Articulatory Variation and Sound Change [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 What are the factors that contribute to (or inhibit) diachronic sound change? While acoustically motivated sound changes are well-documented, research on the articulatory and audiovisual-perceptual aspects of sound change is limited.
Jonathan Havenhill, Youngah Do
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Hierarchical Inference in Sound Change: Words, Sounds, and Frequency of Use [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This paper aims examines the role of hierarchical inference in sound change. Through hierarchical inference, a language learner can distribute credit for a pronunciation between the intended phone and the larger units in which it is embedded, such as ...
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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Intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation, and its relationship to phonetic and phonological change
Anglophonia, 2020 This paper looks at intra-speaker phonetic micro-variation patterns in four dyads, recorded in the 1980s in the working-class community of Glasgow. We present the importance of this kind of interaction-based variation in sociolinguistic studies, since ...
Florent Chevalier
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Grammatically Conditioned Sound Change [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2014 Abstract In the first half of the 20th century following the Neogrammarian tradition, most researchers believed that sound change was always conditioned by phonetic phenomena and never by grammar. Beginning in the 1960s, proponents of the generative school put forward cases of grammatically conditioned sound change.
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Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change
Glossa, 2019 This paper argues that inter-individual and inter-group variation in language acquisition, perception, processing and production, rooted in our biology, may play a largely neglected role in sound change.
Dan Dediu, Scott R. Moisik
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Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction
Glossa, 2021 Do individual differences affect sound change? Traditional approaches to phonetic and phonological change typically downplay differences between the individuals who make up a speech community that is undergoing change, but this has been questioned in ...
James Kirby +2 more
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The interaction between language usage and acoustic correlates of the Kuy register distinction
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Contact is often cited as an explanation for the convergence of areal features and has been proposed as an explanation for the emergence of tonal languages in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Raksit Tyler Lau-Preechathammarach
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The perceptual filtering of predictable coarticulation in exemplar memory
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 Exemplar models of word representations have remained ambivalent or impressionistic as to precisely what veridical auditory information is stored in individual word exemplars.
Jonathan Manker
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Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load
Entropy, 2022 Functional load (FL) quantifies the contributions by phonological contrasts to distinctions made across the lexicon. Previous research has linked particularly low values of FL to sound change.
Erich Round +2 more
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Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years: Static versus Dynamic Measures
LanguagesMost analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches.
Felicity Cox +2 more
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