Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction, or: why rethink reduction? -- 2. Exploring variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic, social, and cognitive factors -- 3. Reduction in native and non-native read and spontaneous speech -- 4. Discovering speech reductions across speaking styles and languages -- 5. Qualitative and quantitative aspects of phonetic variation in Dutch eigenlijk -- 6 .Quantifying phonetic variation: Landmark labelling of imitated utterances -- 7. Syllable structure, automatic syllabification and reduction phenomena -- 8. Speech inversion using naturally spoken data -- 9. Rethinking reduction and canonical forms -- Editor Biographies -- Index