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Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects
Vowels are typically characterized in terms of their static position in formant space, though vowels have also been long-known to undergo dynamic formant change over their timecourse.
Exploring the anatomy of articulation rate in spontaneous English speech: relationships between utterance length effects and social factors
Speech rate has been shown to vary across social categories such as gender, age, and dialect, while also being conditioned by properties of speech planning.
Actuation without production bias
We show that, while the dynamics conditioned by production bias are not unique, it is not the case that all perturbing forces have the same dynamics: in particular, if social weight is a function of individual teachers and the correlation between a teacher's social weight and the extent to which they realize a production bias is weak, change is unlikely to propagate.
Modelled Multivariate Overlap: A method for measuring vowel merger
This paper introduces a novel method for quantifying vowel overlap.
Correlation Does Not Imply Compensation: Complexity and Irregularity in the Lexicon
It has been claimed that within a language, morphologically irregular words are more likely to be phonotactically simple and morphologically regular words are more likely to be phonotactically complex.
Bias and population structure in the actuation of sound change
We find that population structure itself can act as a source of stability, but that both stability and change are possible only when both types of bias are active, suggesting that it is possible to understand why sound change occurs at some times and not others as the population-level result of the interplay between forces promoting each outcome in individual speakers.
