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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present study aims to approach soft ‘g’, a highly disputable sound in Turkish phonetics and phonology, from a multidimensional perspective ...

Lateral consonants, particularly the various realisations of /l/, occupy a unique position in the study of speech sounds by combining complex articulatory gestures with distinct phonological functions ...

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 ...

It is often assumed that there is a sharp division between phonetic and phonological processes, but the two are often strikingly similar, as in the case of phonetic consonant--vowel coarticulation and ...