Earl K. Brown

List of John Benjamins publications in which Earl K. Brown is involved.

Article

Brown, Earl K. 2018 The company that word-boundary sounds keep: The effect of contextual ratio frequency on word-final /s/ in a sample of Mexican Spanish Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 107–125 | Chapter

This paper analyzes the frequency with which words occur in phonological contexts favorable to reduction, referred to here as “contextual ratio frequency.” Duration and center of gravity of word-final /s/ are measured in the speech of ten speakers of Mexican Spanish living in Salinas, California.… read more