Eintrag

Titel

Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology

Personen

Frank Kügler, Caroline Féry, Ruben Vijver

Jahr

2009

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Mouton de Gruyter

Ort

Amsterdam, Berlin, New York

Reihe

Phonology and phonetics

Band

14

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Deutsch (Dialekt)
Englisch
Italienisch
Niederländisch
Portugiesisch
Russisch
Tschechisch

Schlagwörter

Phonetik
Phonologie
Soziolinguistik

Beiträge

• Vijver: On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onsets in child German, Dutch and English
• Féry: Gradient dorsal nasal in Northern German
• Bergmann: Regional variation in intonation: Conversational instances of the 'hat pattern' in Cologne German

Abstract

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.

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