In Honor of Ilse Lehiste: Ilse Lehiste Pühendusteos (Netherlands Phonetic Archives)

The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters. The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not. DEDICATION BIOGRAPHY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Part One: Phonetic Studies Twelve Remarks on the Teaching of Phonetics Juncture Revisited The Perception of Word Stress: A Comparison of Estonian and Russian Toneme Patterns in Norwegian and in Swedish Dialects Segment Duration in Danish Words: Dependency on Higher Level Phonological Units Analysis of Complex (Integrated) Melodic Patterns A Note on the Suprasegmental Representation of Prosody A Linear Model of Speech Timing A Set of German Stressed Monophthongs Analyzed by RTA, FFT, and LPC The Temporal Relationship between Articulations of Consonants and Adjacent Vowels The Application of Analog Models of Some Auditory Mechanisms for Speech Signal Processing The Concept of Target and Speech Timing Phonetic Validation of Distinctive Features: A Test Case in French Cognitive Phonetics – Some of the Evidence Oral Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese Explaining the Intrinsic Pitch of Vowels Rate and Reduction: Some Preliminary Evidence Rules for Assimilation of Voice in Dutch Some Acoustical and Perceptual Correlates of Nasal Vowels The Formation, Analysis and Perception of Hungarian Affricates Cognitive Phonetics – Some of the Theory The Basic Intonation Contours of the Principal Communicative Types of Utterances in English and Estonian Part Two: Language Studies Semitic Has Four Vowels The First Singular Preterite Subjunctive in Germanic Baby Talk: Adult Prediction of Child Pronunciations An ‘Indo-European’ Type Copula in Plains Miwok A Function of the Instrumental Case in Russian Unreal Hypothetical Periods in South Slavic and Greek and Related Features The Minimal Pair in the Finnish Spelling Debate of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, with a Glance at the First Grammatical Treatise The Morphophonemics of Latvian Declension What Helmholtz Knew about Neutral Vowels Articulatory Modes and Typological Universals: The Puzzle of Bantu Ejectives and Aspirates Loan Words and the Estonian Grade Alternation The Accentuation of the Serbocroatian Dialect of Uljma Vocalic Oppositions in Monosyllabic English Words Sound Correspondences and Levels of Transmission: Problems in the Fluctuating Representation of Medial /kt(j)/, /pt(j)/ in Hispano-Romance The Morphophonemics of Flexion in Serbocroatian: A Comparison Sämpsä Pellervoinen Vowel Lenghthening and métatonie rude in Lithuanian The Grammar of Choice in Russian and English The Passive in English: A Discourse Perspective Middle Chinese Tones in Modern Dialects Patterns First, Exceptions Later ADDRESS-LIST