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Introduction
1 Phonetic realization

Flemming, Edward. "Phonetic Optimization: Compromise in Speech Production." University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 5: Selected Phonology Papers from H-OT-97 (1997): 72-91. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Keating, P. A. "Universal Phonetics and The Organization of Grammars." In Phonetic Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Peter Ladefoged. Edited by V. Fromkin. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1985, pp. 115-132. ISBN: 9780122689901.

Does language-specific phonetics affect phonology?
2 Contour tones

Zhang, Jie. The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution: Typological Survey and Formal Analysis. PhD dissertation, UCLA, 2001, chapter 4. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415941563.

———. "The Role of Contrast-Specific and Language-Specific Phonetics in Contour Tone Distribution." In Phonetically-Based Phonology. Edited by Robert Kirchner, Bruce Hayes, and Donca Steriade. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521825788.

3 Syllable weight

Gordon, Matthew. Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, and Typology. PhD dissertation, UCLA, 1999. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415976091.

———. "Syllable Weight." In Phonetically-Based Phonology. Edited by Robert Kirchner, Bruce Hayes, and Donca Steriade. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521825788.

4 Stop voicing and bursts

Jun, Jongho. "Positional Faithfulness, Sympathy and Inferred Input." Ms, Yeungnam University, 2002. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

———. "A Perception-Based Analysis of Place Assimilation." In Phonetically-Based Phonology. Edited by Robert Kirchner, Bruce Hayes, and Donca Steriade. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521825788.

———. Perceptual and Articulatory Factors in Place Assimilation: An Optimality Theoretic Approach. PhD dissertation, UCLA, 1995, chapter 2. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Kawahara, Shigeto. "A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ voice] in Japanese." Language 82, no. 3 (September 2006).

Models of phonetic realization
5 Rules and constraints

Flemming, Edward. "Scalar and Categorical Phenomena in a Unified Model of Phonetics and Phonology." Phonology 18, no. 1 (2001). (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Cohn, Abigail. "Nasalisation in English: Phonology or Phonetics." Phonology 10 (1993): 43-81.

6 Implications of phonetic detail for phonological analyses

Lindblom, Björn. "A Spectrographic Study of Vowel Reduction." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 35 (1963): 1773-1781.

Flemming, Edward. "A Phonetically-Based Model of Phonological Vowel Reduction." Unpublished manuscript, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Articulatory phonology
7 Articulatory phonology

Browman, Catherine P., and Louis Goldstein. "Tiers in Articulatory Phonology, With Some Implications for Casual Speech." In Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech. Edited by John Beckman and Mary Kingston. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521368087.

Gafos, Adamantios. "A Grammar of Gestural Coordination." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20 (2002): 269-337.

8 Releases and transitions
Tone
9 Tone

Xu, Yi. "Speech Melody as Articulatorily Implemented Communicative Functions." Speech Communication 46 (2005): 220-251.

———. "Contextual Tonal Variations in Mandarin." Journal of Phonetics 25, no. 1 (January 1997): 61-83.

Myers, Scott. "F0 Timing in Kinyarwanda." Phonetica 60, no. 2 (April-June 2003): 71-97.

Stop bursts, consonant releases, etc.
10 Releases and transitions (cont.)

Kenstowicz, M., M. Abu Mansour, and M. Törkenczy. "Two Notes on Laryngeal Licensing." In Living on the Edge: 28 Papers in Honour of Jonathan Kaye. Edited by Stefan Ploch and Geoff Williams. New York, NY: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000 (reprinted 2004). ISBN: 9783110176193. (DOC)

Kang, Y-J. "Perceptual Similarity in Loanword Adaptation: English Postvocalic Word-Final Stops in Korean." Phonology 20 (2003): 219-273.

Too many solutions
11 Phonetic detail and the "too many solutions" problem

Steriade, Donca. "Phonetics In Phonology: The Case of Laryngeal Neutralization." UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (1997): 25-146. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

———. "The Phonology of Perceptibility Effects: The P-map and its Consequences for Constraint Organization." 2001. (DOC)