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

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 PA...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 56 B/W illustrations 45 B/W tables
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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