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 ...

The study of the phonetics and phonology of voicing and consonant production investigates the intricate processes underlying speech sound generation and perception. Central to this field is the ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 39, No. 1 (April 2009), pp. 1-31 (31 pages) Many phonetic and phonological processes resemble one another, which has led some researchers to ...

An introduction to the scientific analysis of the structure and uses of language. Core areas covered include phonetics and phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with ...

This paper examines the phonology and phonetics of rhotics in Modern Irish. Descriptions of the Old Irish language posit four distinct rhotic phonemes, differentiated along the axes fortis-lenis and ...

Electropalatographic data on the frequency of occurrence of assimilatory processes in Catalan C1##C2 sequences, where ## is inserted at the boundary between two consecutive words, reveal that ...

In contemporary research on language development, there is a renewed focus on what babies (should) hear. For example, public initiatives, like the “30-million word gap” or “Providence Talks,” apply ...

Chris Geissler is a phonetician and phonologist with particular interests in speech production, the phonetics-phonology interface, and the linguistics of Tibetan. Prior to Boston College, he completed ...