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Book Synopsis Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions by : Margaret R. MacEachern
Download or read book Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions written by Margaret R. MacEachern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents an analysis of laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions within an Optimality Theory framework. The book will be of interest to phonologists concerned with word- or morpheme-level cooccurrence restrictions, the Obligatory Contour Principle, or Optimality Theory. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Perceptual Basis of Long-distance Laryngeal Restrictions by : Gillian Elizabeth Scott Gallagher
Download or read book The Perceptual Basis of Long-distance Laryngeal Restrictions written by Gillian Elizabeth Scott Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two main arguments in this dissertation are 1. That laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions are restrictions on the perceptual strength of contrasts between roots, as opposed to restrictions on laryngeal configurations in isolated roots, and 2. That laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions are restrictions on auditory, as opposed to articulatory, features. Both long-distance laryngeal dissimilation, where roots may have one but not two laryngeally marked stops (MacEachern 1999), and assimilation, where stops in a root must agree in laryngeal features (Hansson 2001; Rose and Walker 2004) are given a unified account based on a grammatical pressure to neutralize indistinct contrasts. This analysis is supported by the finding that certain non-adjacent sounds interact in perception. Specifically, the perception of a contrast in ejection or aspiration is degraded in roots with another ejective or aspirate as compared to another plain stop (e.g. the pair k'ap'i-kap'i is more confusable than the pair k'api-kapi). Roots that are minimally distinguished by having one vs. two laryngeally marked stops are confusable (e.g. k'ap'i is confusable with kap'i), and thus languages may avoid having both types of roots. The analysis integrates long-distance neutralizations with analyses of local neutralizations based on phonetic cues and contrast strength (Flemming 1995, 2004; Steriade 1997), showing that both local and non-local phenomena are driven by constraints against perceptually indistinct contrasts. The interaction between ejectives and aspirates in Quechua provides evidence for auditory features. These two articulatorily disparate sounds pattern together in the cooccurrence restrictions of Quechua, showing that some feature must pick them out as a class. It is argued that ejectives and aspirates may pattern together because they share long voice onset time. It is shown that defining laryngeally marked stops based on their language specific auditory properties correctly accounts both for ejective-aspirate interactions in Quechua and also for the interaction between ejectives and implosives in Hausa and Tz'utujil.
Book Synopsis The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals by : Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen
Download or read book The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals written by Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in Khoesan languages, and the first study of phonation types associated with pharyngeal consonants all around. Although bases of OCP constraints have been presumed to be perceptual, this is the first quantitative study showing the acoustic basis of a particular OCP constraint in a specific language. Amanda L. Miller-Ockhuizen describes the phonetics and phonology of gutturals in the Khoesan language of Ju|'hoansi. Hers is the first study of voice quality cues associated with epiglottalized vowels. Thus, it is the first study to show that laryngeal and pharyngeal vowels are unified phonetically by non-modal voice qualities associated with them. It is also the first study to show that in addition to laryngeal coarticulation, whereby voice quality cues associated with laryngeal consonants are spread to a following vowel, pharyngeal coarticulation also involves spreading of voice quality cues. Thus, guttural consonants are united in that they all spread voice quality cues onto a following vowel. Voice quality cues found on vowels following guttural consonants are as large as similar cues associated with guttural vowels. This acoustic similarity is shown to be the basis of a novel Guttural OCP constraint found in the language, which is demonstrated to exist via co-occurrence patterns found over a recorded database of all of the known roots. Thus, this is the first book to provide a detailed perceptual basis of an OCP constraint. The database study also reports several other novel phonotactic constraints involving gutturals, as well as a reanalysis of the well-known Back Vowel Constraint. This book describes both phonetics and phonology of the natural class of guttural consonants, and shows through a quantitative acoustic investigation how the phonetic cues associated with these sounds are the bases of phonotactic constraints involving them.
Book Synopsis Consonant Harmony by : Gunnar Olafur Hansson
Download or read book Consonant Harmony written by Gunnar Olafur Hansson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised version of the author's 2001 doctoral dissertation.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics by : Natasha Abner
Download or read book Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics written by Natasha Abner and published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 52 of the 59 papers from the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27), which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 16-18, 2008. The authors present new work in syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology. The proceedings includes Elliott Moreton's plenary paper, "Modelling Modularity Bias in Phonological Pattern Learning."
Book Synopsis Features in Phonology and Phonetics by : Annie Rialland
Download or read book Features in Phonology and Phonetics written by Annie Rialland and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book intends to place Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.
Book Synopsis Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing by : Wolfgang Kehrein
Download or read book Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing written by Wolfgang Kehrein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contains two detailed case studies dealing with the phonetics and phonology of affricates and laryngeals. Based on a survey of 281 languages it states a number of universal generalizations which go counter to common assumptions in the phonological and phonetic literature. Most importantly, (1) a phonological concept >affricate Based on the empirical findings the book addresses a number of theoretical issues as, e.g., the interaction of phonetics and phonology, or questions of phonological representation. It is claimed that phonetics fulfills important functions with regard to phonology: 'affrication' and laryngeal phasings (e.g. pre- vs. postaspiration) are presented as purely phonetic strategies which serve to make phonological specifications acoustically more salient. Finally, two revisions to current models of feature theory are proposed, both of which lead to a leaner structure of phonological segments: first, stricture contours are eliminated from phonological representation; second, the 'Laryngeal Node' is attached directly to onsets, nuclei, and codas. Die Monographie enthält zwei Einzelstudien zur Phonologie und Phonetik von Affrikaten und Laryngalen aus insgesamt 281 Sprachen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse widerlegen eine Reihe gängiger Lehrmeinungen, z.B.: (1) Affrikaten sind phonologisch ausschließlich Plosive, (2) Laryngale sind Eigenschaften prosodischer Domänen (Anlaut, Nukleus, Koda), (3) Phonetische Strategien (Affrikatisierung, laryngale Phasierung) dienen der akustischen Verstärkung phonologischer Kontraste. Auf theoretischer Ebene werden Fragen der phonologischen Repräsentation (Merkmalskonturen, prososodische Lizensierung etc.) sowie der Schnittstelle von Phonologie und Phonetik diskutiert.
Book Synopsis The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic by : Seiichi Suzuki
Download or read book The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic written by Seiichi Suzuki and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change. Specifically, a Gothic/Greek bilingual community may be held responsible for initiating and diffusing the contact change. Third, I claim that this contact-driven featural enrichment prompted an array of radical restructurings of fricatives in their phonological and morphological organizations in Gothic, notably the occurrence of Final Devoicing in contrast to the nonoccurrence of medial voicing, the elimination of Verner’s Law effects in strong verbs, the operation of Thurneysen’s Law, and the apparently irregular split of PGmc. */fl-/ to Go. /fl-/ and /þl-/. Thus, privileged by a Lower Danube community largely composed of Greek/Gothic bilinguals, this cluster of mid-fourth-century innovations came to define the phonological and morphological identities of Biblical Gothic.
Book Synopsis Existential Faithfullness by : Caro Struijke
Download or read book Existential Faithfullness written by Caro Struijke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Initially a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Maryland at College Park in August 2000, this book is a revised version with an expanded discussion on dissimilation, as well as looking at existential faithfulness relations in reduplicative TETU and feature movement.
Author :Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer Publisher :John Benjamins Publishing ISBN 13 :9789027248015 Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (48 download)
Book Synopsis Voicing in Dutch by : Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer
Download or read book Voicing in Dutch written by Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the phonetic facts (Is final neutralization complete or incomplete? Are the assimilation rules phonetic or phonological?) and the most adequate phonological analyses (Is [voice] a binary feature? What constraints are necessary? What is the best way of implementing the role of morphology?). This volume summarises and adds fuel to these debates on several fronts, by providing an overview of analyses so far (rule-based as well as constraint-based) and proposing a new one, by drawing attention to new facts, such as exceptions to final devoicing in certain dialects and the behaviour of loanwords, and by re-examining the phonetic state of affairs and the behaviour of voiced, voiceless and partially devoiced segments in psycholinguistic experiments.
Book Synopsis The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set by : Marc van Oostendorp
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set written by Marc van Oostendorp and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 3183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2): Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series
Book Synopsis The Phonology of Consonants by : Wm G. Bennett
Download or read book The Phonology of Consonants written by Wm G. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the avoidance of surface correspondence relationships. It draws on recent work in Agreement By Correspondence to show that dissimilation is a natural outcome predicted by the same theory of Surface Correspondence. The theory is developed in more detail than ever before, and its predictions are tested and evaluated through ten in-depth analyses of diverse languages from Quechua to Kinyarwanda, together with a typological survey of over 150 dissimilation patterns drawn from over 130 languages, from Acehnese to Zulu. The book redefines the core of Surface Correspondence theory to a level of formal specificity and theoretical precision surpassing previous work. The book's findings are made more accessible by numerous examples featuring data from 47 languages from around the world.
Book Synopsis Identity Relations in Grammar by : Kuniya Nasukawa
Download or read book Identity Relations in Grammar written by Kuniya Nasukawa and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles. Beyond a great many analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These include: Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary, while in other contexts it must be avoided? What are the properties of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity (XX)? What structural notions of closeness or distance determine whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity? Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are such comparisons merely metaphorical? Indeed, can we define the notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine instances of some identity (avoidance) effect? If identity avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars of different languages seems to be subject to considerable variation?
Book Synopsis Introduction to Element Theory by : Phillip Backley
Download or read book Introduction to Element Theory written by Phillip Backley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh alternative for describing segmental structure in phonology
Book Synopsis Language by : George Melville Bolling
Download or read book Language written by George Melville Bolling and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Optimality Theory in Phonology by : John J. McCarthy
Download or read book Optimality Theory in Phonology written by John J. McCarthy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.
Book Synopsis Phonetically Based Phonology by : Bruce Hayes
Download or read book Phonetically Based Phonology written by Bruce Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetically Based Phonology is centred around the hypothesis that phonologies of languages are determined by phonetic principles; that is, phonetic patterns involving ease of articulation and perception are expressed linguistically as grammatical constraints. This book brings together a team of scholars to provide a wide-ranging study of phonetically based phonology. It investigates the role of phonetics in many phonological phenomena - such as assimilation, vowel reduction, vowel harmony, syllable weight, contour line distribution, metathesis, lenition, sonority sequencing, and the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) - exploring in particular the phonetic bases of phonological markedness in these key areas. The analyses also illustrate several analytical strategies whereby phonological sound patterns can be related to their phonological underpinnings. Each chapter includes a tutorial discussion of the phonetics on which the phonological discussion is based. Diverse and comprehensive in its coverage, Phonetically Based Phonology will be welcomed by all linguists interested in the relationship between phonetics and phonological theory.
