Janet Pierrehumbert

Type and token frequencies and their effects on variation. E.g., does the frequency of agree make –gri 45x more popular than –kri (decree), or is it a matter of lexical items, in which case it is only 2x more? And, what are the implications of the way we pronounce every, memory, and mammary with progressively less reduced vowels? This is interesting, and so many things aren't these days. Glot 5.