Volume 32 – 2020

Volume 32 – Issue 1 – 2020

The dynamics of vowel reduction and loss in phonetics and phonology Cormac Anderson, Natalia Kuznetsova (guest editors)

General issues

Natalia Kuznetsova, Cormac Anderson.
Vowel reduction and loss: challenges and perspectives

Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Shelece Easterday, Joan Bybee.
Vowel reduction: a usage-based perspective.

Case studies on lesser-known varieties

Alexander Krasovitsky.
Vowel reduction in a North Russian dialect: A case study

Maria Konoshenko.
Vowel reduction in Russian classical singing: The case of unstressed /a/ after palatalised consonants

Antonio Romano.
Vowel reduction and deletion in Apulian and Lucanian dialects with reference to speech rhythm

Valentin Vydrin.
Vowel elision and reduction in Bambara

Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher.
Phonetic evidence for phonotactic change in Nafsan (South Efate)

Matt Coler, Nicholas Emlen, Edwin Banegas-Flores.
Vowel deletion in two Aymara varieties

Diachronic studies

Martin Kümmel.
Voiceless high vowels and syncope in older Indo-European

Andreas Baumann, Christina Prömer, Nikolaus Ritt.
Reconstructing the diffusion of Middle English schwa deletion

Sonja Dahlgren.
The system of Coptic vowel reduction: Evidence from L2 Greek usage

Book review

Zampaulo, André. Palatal Sound Changes in the Romance Languages.
Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Daniel Recasens