Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Gestural Delay and Gestural Reduction: Articulatory Variation in /l/-vocalisation in Southern British English -- 2. The Production and Perception of Derived Phonological Contrasts in Selected Varieties of English -- 3. The Phonological Fuzziness of Palatalisation in Contemporary English: A Case of Near-phonemes? -- 4. Asymmetric Acquisition of English Liquid Consonants by Japanese Speakers -- 5. R-sandhi in English and Liaison in French: Two Phenomenologies in the Light of the PAC and PFC Data -- 6. A Corpora-based Study of Vowel Reduction in Two Speech Styles: A Comparison between English and Polish -- 7. On 'Because': Phonological Variants and their Pragmatic Functions in a Corpus of Bolton (Lancashire) English -- 8. On the New Zealand Short Front Vowel Shift -- 9. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Northern Michigan -- 10. Levelling in a Northern English Variety: The Case of FACE and GOAT in Greater Manchester -- 11. A Study of Rhoticity in Boston: Results from a PAC Survey -- 12. A Corpus-based Study of /t/ flapping in American English Broadcast Speech -- Index