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Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology.
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ISBN: 9789027247971 Year: 2007 Volume: 282 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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The initiation of sound change : perception, production, and social factors
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ISBN: 9789027248411 9789027273666 9027248419 9027273669 1281145971 9781281145970 9786613776709 661377670X Year: 2012 Publisher: Amserdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology. This diversity of perspectives contributes to a fruitful cross-fertilization across disciplines and represents an attempt to formulate converging ideas on the factors that lead to sound chan

Segmental and prosodic issues in romance phonology
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ISBN: 1282154818 9786612154812 9027292698 9789027292698 9789027247971 9027247978 Year: 2007 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub.,

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This paper explores the concept of linguistic rhythm classes through a series of studies exploiting metrics designed to quantify speech rhythm. We compared the rhythm of 'syllable-timed' French and Spanish with that of 'stress-timed' Dutch and English, finding that rate-normalised metrics of vocalic interval variability (VarcoV and nPVI-V), together with a measure of the balance of vocalic and intervocalic intervals (%V), were the most discriminant between the two rhythm groups. The same metrics were also informative about the adaptation of speakers to rhythmically-similar (Dutch and English) or rhythmically-distinct (Spanish and English) second languages, and showed evidence of rhythmic gradience within accents of British English. Patterns of scores in all studies support the notion that rhythmic typology is not strictly categorical. A perceptual study found VarcoV to be the strongest predictor of the rating of a second language speaker's accent as native or non-native.

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