Experimental Approaches to Phonology

This wide-ranging survey of experimental methods in phonetics and phonology shows the insights and results provided by different methods of investigation including laboratory-based statistical psycholinguistic computational-modeling corpus and field techniques. The five chapters in the first part of the book examine the recent history and interrelations of theory and method. The remaining 18 chapters are organized into parts devoted to four key current areas of research: phonological universals; phonetic variation and phonological change; maintaining enhancing and modeling phonological contrasts; and phonological knowledge. The book provides fresh insights into the findings and theoretical advances that emerge from experimental investigation of phonological structure and phonological knowledge as well as critical perspectives on experimental methods in the perception production and modeling of speech.This book will be a valuable asset for all researchers into the sound structure of language including scholars and advanced students of phonetics phonology speech science psycholinguistics and applied linguistics.