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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)

Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon ———. "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

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

Buy at Amazon ———. "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)

Buy at Amazon ———. "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

Buy at Amazon 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.)

Buy at Amazon 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)