Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...

Lenition, a pervasive phonetic phenomenon, involves the systematic weakening or alteration of consonant sounds in contextual speech environments. This process, which may result in fully articulated ...

In her study published in this journal, Newlin-Łukowicz (2012) calls into question the existence of bidirectional stress systems. The argument hinges on the failure to detect acoustic correlates of ...

Abstract phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

The psychological processes involved in language production and comprehension, including syntactic priming, word-level errors, disfluencies, and how agreement is computed, with a special focus on the ...

English shmenglish. Language shmanguage. The practice of copying a word and sticking a shm- onto it came into the U.S. with Yiddish speakers in the late 19th century, and by the 1930s it had spread ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...