The Corpus Phonology of English : : Multifocal Analyses of Variation / / Sylvain Navarro, Anne Przewozny, Cécile Viollain.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Przewozny, Anne,; Navarro, Sylvain ,; Viollain, Cécile ,
• MitwirkendeR: Chatellier, Hugo,; Durand, Jacques,; Ferragne, Emmanuel,; Glain, Olivier,; Hannisdal, Bente,; Huber, Daniel,; Kondo, Mariko,; Kul, Małgorzata,; Navarro, Sylvain,; Przewozny, Anne,; Scobbie, James M.,; Strycharczuk, Patrycja,; Travelet, Madeline,; Viollain, Cécile,; Zumstein, Franck,; Zydorowicz, Paulina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 56 B/W illustrations 45 B/W tables

Uses corpus data to investigate variation and change in contemporary varieties of spoken EnglishExamines spoken varieties of English in Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and the USAExamines English in comparison to French, Polish and Japanese Draws on data from the PAC Lancashire, Boston, Manchester, Michigan and Dunedin corpora, the IDEA corpus and the Greater Poland Speech CorpusBrings together an international range of contributors in various fields of phonological research from the UK, France, Poland, Norway and JapanIncludes over 100 tables and figures to clearly demonstrate key concepts, data and ideasPlacing 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Gestural Delay and Gestural Reduction: Articulatory Variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English -- 2. The Production and Perception of Derived Phonological Contrasts in Selected Varieties of English -- 3. The Phonological Fuzziness of Palatalisation in Contemporary English: A Case of Near-phonemes? -- 4. Asymmetric Acquisition of English Liquid Consonants by Japanese Speakers -- 5. R-sandhi in English and Liaison in French: Two Phenomenologies in the Light of the PAC and PFC Data -- 6. A Corpora-based Study of Vowel Reduction in Two Speech Styles: A Comparison between English and Polish -- 7. On ‘Because’: Phonological Variants and their Pragmatic Functions in a Corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English -- 8. On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift -- 9. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan -- 10. Levelling in a Northern English Variety: The Case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester -- 11. A Study of Rhoticity in Boston: Results from a PAC Survey -- 12. A Corpus-based Study of /t/ flapping in American English Broadcast Speech -- Index