Full Description
This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of articles that deal with some of the fundamental issues in the field, from first and second language acquisition to segmental and supra-segmental phenomena in a range of different languages. Unique features of this volume are the development of innovative experimental methodologies, advanced techniques of data analysis, latest-generation equipment for the observation of speech, and their combined critical application to the study of the phonetics-phonology interface. The volume is therefore not only of great interest but of outstanding value and importance to anyone who wishes to be completely apprised of the latest advances in this crucial area of phonological research.
Contents
1. Foreword & acknowledgments; 2. Editors' introduction; 3. Part I First and second language acquisition; 4. Devil or angel in the details?: Perceiving phonetic variation as information about phonological structure (by Best, Catherine T.); 5. Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals (by Mora, Joan Carles); 6. Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy: A look at prosodic, rhythmic and segmental properties in utterances from two Catalan dialects (by Ortega-Llebaria, Marta); 7. Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations: A reassessment of English vowels in French (by Peperkamp, Sharon); 8. Part II Prosody; 9. A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French (by Avanzi, Mathieu); 10. Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian (by Cangemi, Francesco); 11. Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian (by Di Napoli, Jessica); 12. Part III Segments; 13. Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish (by Barbero, Nagore); 14. The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern: Depressor effects of prenasalized consonants (by Cibelli, Emily); 15. The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals (by Weissglass, Christine); 16. Part IV Methodology; 17. Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish (by Henriksen, Nicholas); 18. Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups (by Nava, Emily); 19. Categories and gradience in intonation: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study (by Post, Brechtje); 20. Subject Index
