Table of contents
Foreword and acknowledgements
List of contributors and discussion participants
Editors’ introduction
Part I. Perception
The listener as a source of sound change: An update
Perception grammars and sound change
A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance
The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change
Part II. Production
The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting
Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change?
The gaits of speech: Re-examining the role of articulatory effort in spoken language
Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change
Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change
Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback
Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change
Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change
Index of subjects and terms
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