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Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (Hardcover)
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Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (Hardcover)
Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]
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This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and
gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics. It
contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in
theoretical phonology by combing research on the factors underlying
variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical
phonological considerations. Variation is inherent to language, and
one of the aims of phonological theory is to describe and explain
the mechanisms underlying variation at every level of phonological
representation. Variation below the segment concerns articulatory,
acoustic and perceptual cues that contribute to the formation of
natural classes of sounds. At the segmental level there are
grammatical differences in the production and perception of
contextual variation of segments and in the syntagmatic constraints
on the combination of segments. At the suprasegmental level the
mapping of tones to grammatical functions and vice versa is
discussed. Further aspects addressed in this book are factors
outside of language: Variation that arises as a result of a
particular dialect or of belonging to a certain age group, or
variation that is the consequence of language change. Gradience and
variation have always been a central issue in phonetic and
sociolinguistic research. Gradience introduces variation in
phonology as well. If a phonetic entity can be pronounced in
different ways, depending on the environment, prosodic factors or
dialectal influences, this 'gradience' may introduce 'variation',
which we understand as a stable state of grammar.
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