| Chapter outlines | |
| 1. Setting the Stage (sample chapter) | |
| 1.1 Phonetics or Phonology? | |
| 1.1.1 More mind than body (fossils again) | |
| 1.1.2 A 50/50 mixture | |
| 1.1.3 More body than mind | |
| 1.1.4 Functional phonology and perception | |
| 1.1.5 Have we captured the meaning of 'phonology'? | |
| 1.1.6 Influence of phonology on phonetics | |
| 1.1.7 Back to basics | |
| 1.2 Fast Speech? | |
| 1.3 Summary | |
| 2. Processes in Conversational English | |
| 2.1 The Vulnerability Hierarchy | |
| 2.1.1 Frequency | |
| 2.1.2 Discourse | |
| 2.1.3 Rate? | |
| 2.1.4 Membership in a linguistic unit | |
| 2.1.5 Phonetic/Phonological | |
| 2.1.6 Morphological | |
| 2.2 Reduction Processes in English | |
| 2.2.1 Varieties examined | |
| 2.3 Stress as a Conditioning Factor | |
| 2.3.1 Schwa absorption | |
| 2.3.2 Reduction of closure for obstruents | |
| 2.3.3 Tapping | |
| 2.3.4 Devoicing and voicing | |
| 2.4 Syllabic Conditioning Factors | |
| 2.4.1 Syllable shape | |
| 2.4.2 Onsets and codas | |
| 2.4.3 CVCV alternation | |
| 2.4.4 Syllable-final adjustments | |
| 2.4.5 Syllable shape again | |
| 2.5 Other Processes | |
| 2.5.1 ð-reduction | |
| 2.5.2 h-dropping | |
| 2.5.3 'Palatalization' | |
| 2.6 Icons | |
| 2.7 Weak Forms? | |
| 2.8 Combination of these Processes | |
| 3. Attempts at Phonological Explanation | |
| 3.1 Past Work on Conversational Phonology | |
| 3.2 Natural Phonology | |
| 3.3 Variable Rules | |
| 3.4 More on Rule Order | |
| 3.5 Attempts in the 1990s | |
| 3.5.1 Autosegmental | |
| 3.5.2 Metrical | |
| 3.5.3 Articulatory | |
| 3.5.4 Underspecification | |
| 3.5.6 Optimality theory | |
| 3.5.7 A synthesist | |
| 3.6 And into the New Millenium | |
| 3.6.1 Trace/Event theory | |
| 3.7 Summary | |
| 4. Experimental Studies in Casual Speech | |
| 4.1 Production of Casual Speech | |
| 4.1.1 General production studies | |
| 4.1.2 Production/Perception studies of particular processes | |
| 4.2 Perception of Casual Speech | |
| 4.2.1 Setting the stage | |
| 4.2.2 Phonology in speech perception | |
| 4.2.3 Other theories | |
| 4.3 Summary | |
| 5. Applications | |
| 5.1 Phonology | |
| 5.1.1 Writ small in English, writ large in other languages | |
| 5.1.2 Historical phonology | |
| 5.2 First and Second Language Acquisition | |
| 5.2.1 First language acquisition | |
| 5.2.2 Second language acquisition | |
| 5.3 Interacting with Computers | |
| 5.3.1 Speech synthesis | |
| 5.3.2 Speech recognition | |
| 5.4 Summary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
