The initiation of sound change : perception, production, and social factors

1. Foreword and acknowledgements 2. List of contributors and discussion participants 3. Editors' introduction 4. Part I. Perception 5. The listener as a source of sound change: An update (by Ohala, John J.) 6. Perception grammars and sound change (by Beddor, Patrice Speeter) 7. A phonetic interpretation of the sound changes affecting dark /l/ in Romance (by Recasens, Daniel) 8. The production and perception of sub-phonemic vowel contrasts and the role of the listener in sound change (by Grosvald, Michael) 9. Part II. Production 10. The coarticulatory basis of diachronic high back vowel fronting (by Harrington, Jonathan) 11. Natural and unnatural patterns of sound change? (by Sole, Maria-Josep) 12. The gaits of speech: Re-examining the role of articulatory effort in spoken language (by Pouplier, Marianne) 13. Part III. Social factors, structural factors and the typology of change 14. Prosodic skewing of input and the initiation of cross-generational sound change (by Salmons, Joseph C.) 15. Social and personality variables in compensation for altered auditory feedback (by Dimov, Svetlin) 16. Patterns of lexical diffusion and articulatory motivation for sound change (by Bybee, Joan L.) 17. Foundational concepts in the scientific study of sound change (by Hale, Mark) 18. Index of subjects and terms