Introducing abstraction, diversity, and speech dynamics

The editorial provides an overview of the main themes that are covered by the seven papers that form part of the special collection.

[1]  Molly Babel,et al.  Do social preferences matter in lexical retuning? , 2019, Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

[2]  Alan C. L. Yu,et al.  The Phonetics of Sound Change , 2020 .

[3]  J. Pierrehumbert,et al.  Word frequency effects in sound change as a consequence of perceptual asymmetries: An exemplar-based model , 2019, Cognition.

[4]  Georgia Zellou,et al.  The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception , 2018 .

[5]  R. Baayen,et al.  Shifting paradigms: gradient structure in morphology , 2005, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

[6]  C. Carignan.  Using naïve listener imitations of native speaker productions to investigate mechanisms of listener-based sound change , 2018, Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

[7]  J. Pierrehumbert,et al.  Gendered associations of English morphology , 2018 .

[8]  Doris Mücke,et al.  Coordination patterns in Essential Tremor patients with Deep Brain Stimulation: Syllables with low and high complexity , 2019, Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

[9]  A. Hanulíková,et al.  Variation in children’s vowel production: Effects of language exposure and lexical frequency , 2019, Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

[10]  C. Browman.  Gestural structures : distinctiveness, phonological processes, and historical change , 1991 .

[11]  A. Bradlow,et al.  Language-independent talker-specificity in bilingual speech intelligibility: Individual traits persist across first-language and second-language speech , 2018 .

[12]  P. Mermelstein,et al.  Speech sounds and features , 1975, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[13]  P. S. Beddor.  A Coarticulatory Path to Sound Change , 2009 .