Books in the Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics series

The book explores the role of phonological templates in early language use, with analyses of children's first words and their adult targets, as well as their later prosodic structures. The book also examines the timing, fading, quantification and function of child phonological templates and the use of templates in adult language.

This book examines specific sound changes that cannot be explained by phonological means alone but crucially rely on morphological information. It offers a unified theoretical account of these phenomena as well as a rich database of attested patterns in the world's languages.

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetic manifestation and phonological nature of geminate, or 'long', consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish.

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, combining traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight with new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. It is based on a survey of weight systems in the world's languages, yielding a number of valuable generalizations for human language.

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on speech timing evidence. It argues for an alternative to Articulatory Phonology, and lays out a framework that provides a more satisfactory account of what is known about motor timing in general and speech timing in particular.