Laboratory Phonology 9

The theme of this book is Change in Phonology, understood as encompassing both change at the level of the speech community and development within the individual speaker/hearer. As in other Laboratory Phonology volumes, thematically grouped sets of chapters are followed by a commentary by an author who approaches the topic from a different angle. The papers included in this volume are authored by linguists, psycholinguists, computer scientists and engineers and demonstrate that the Laboratory Phonology approach has reached maturity and has succeeded in its aim not only to bridge the gap between phonetics and phonology but also to establish a fruitful and mutually beneficial dialog between linguists and other scientists and scholars concerned with the study of the sound patterns of human language.