Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: data, word prosody, and modelling.

Word-level prosody plays an important role in processes of consonant lenition. Typically, consonants in word-initial position are strengthened while those in word-medial position are lenited (Keating et al., 2003).

Using automatic alignment to analyze endangered language data: testing the viability of untrained alignment.

While efforts to document endangered languages have steadily increased, the phonetic analysis of endangered language data remains a challenge. The transcription of large documentation corpora is, by itself, a tremendous feat. Yet, the process of segmentation remains a bottleneck for research with data of this kind.