This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and
characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its …

We define a saltatory phonological alternation as one in which sound A is converted to C,
leaping over phonetically intermediate B. For example, in Campidanian Sardinian …

The production of the lax vowel/æ/is widely studied as a sociolinguistic variable in American
English, as several dialects differ in the allophonic distribution of lax and tense variants of …

The study of representations, their limits and capacities, is an indispensable part of the
formal study of language. The representations are the limits of what can be stored and …

Most modern studies of Swedish phonology take the view that the underlying vowel
inventory of Central Standard Swedish comprises nine, rather than seventeen or eighteen …

The English strong verbs, throughout their history, have shown a tendency to be attracted
into the large class of regular verbs. The retention of strong inflection for some verbs is a …

Phonologically-Conditioned Ineffability (PCI) occurs when marked phonological structure
renders a word completely ungrammatical. In this paper, I propose extending an existing …

The Phonetican Journal of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences Page 2 The
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Saltation in Phonology Page 1 Whatmough Lecture Bruce Hayes April 1, 2013 UCLA Saltation
in Phonology 1 I. OVERVIEW 1. Defining saltation • Term proposed by Lass (1997)2 • Intuitively …

This document is an edited version of material from an earlier, unpublished version of Zuraw
2007 that did not make it into the published version. I'm making it available since that earlier …