Phonetic Interpretation

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction John Local, Richard Ogden and Rosalind Temple; Part I. Phonological Representations and the Lexicon: 1. Interpreting 'phonetic interpretation' across the lexicon Mary E. Beckman and Janet Pierrehumbert; 2. Effects on word recognition of syllable-onset cues to syllable-coda voicing Sarah Hawkins and Noël Nguyen; 3. Speech perception, well-formedness and the statistics of the lexicon Jennifer Hay, Janet Pierrehumbert and Mary E. Beckman; 4. Factors of lexical competition in vowel articulation Richard Wright; 5. Commentary: probability, detail and experience John Coleman; Part II. Phonetic Interpretation and Phrasal Structure: 6. Release the captive coda: the foot as a domain of phonetic interpretation John Harris; 7. How many levels of phrasing? Evidence from two varieties of Italian Mariapaola D'Imperio and Barbara Gili Fivela; 8. Domain-initial articulatory strengthening in four languages Patricia Keating, Taehong Cho, Cécile Fougeron and Chai-Shune Hsu; 9. External sandhi as gestural overlap? Counter evidence from Sardinian D. Robert Ladd and James M. Scobbie; 10. Commentary: consonant strengthening and lengthening in various languages Jonathan Harrington; Part III. Phonetic Interpretation and Syllable Structure: 11. On the factorability of phonological units in speech perception Terrance M. Nearey; 12 Articulatory correlates of ambisyllabicity in English glides and liquids Bryan Gick; 13. Extrinsic phonetic interpretation: spectral variation in English liquids Paul Carter; 14. Temporal constraints and characterising syllable structuring Kenneth De Jong; 15. Commentary: some thought on syllables: an old fashioned interlude Peter Ladefoged; Part IV. Phonology and Natural Speech Production: Tasks, Contrasts and Explanations: 16. The interaction of the phonetics and phonology of Gutturals Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh; 17. Pitch discrimination during breathy versus modal phonation Daniel Silverman; 18. The phonetic interpretation of register: evidence from Yorùbá Katrina Hayward, Justin Watkins and Akin Oyètádé; 19. Speech rhythm in English and Japanese Keiichi Tajima and Robert F. Port; 20. Commentary: on the interpretation of speakers' performance Gerard J. Docherty; References; Index of names; Index of subjects.