Forty-five patients diagnosed as having nonorganic dysphonia were assigned in rotation to
1 of 3 groups. Patients in group 1 received no treatment and acted as a control group. …

Background Chronic inflammation is believed to increase the risk of coronary events by
making atherosclerotic plaques in coronary vessels prone to rupture. We examined blood …

In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting
both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of …

Domesticated animals formed an important element of farming practices in prehistoric Britain,
a fact revealed through the quantity and variety of animal bone typically found at …

… Docherty … Evidence of this can be found in the research which is exploring the so-called
'phonetics-phonology interface' (Ohala & Jaeger 1986, Kir.gston & Beckman 1990, Docherty …

Background/aim It is widely believed that ‘creaky voice’ (‘creak’, ‘vocal fry’, ‘glottal fry’) is
increasingly prevalent among some English speakers, particularly among young American …

… Similarly, the chapters by Watt & Milroy, Hickey, Trudgill, and Docherty & Foulkes assess
the implications of phonetic variation for our understanding of how change is initiated and how …

… Similarly, the chapters by Watt & Milroy, Hickey, Trudgill, and Docherty & Foulkes assess
the implications of phonetic variation for our understanding of how change is initiated and how …

… by the young, sometimes variably rather than categorically (Foulkes & Docherty in press). …
quite different sociolinguistic patterns (see further Docherty, Foulkes, Milroy, Milroy & Walshaw …

Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from
thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in …