A Guide To Morphosyntax Phonology Interface Theories

Author : Tobias Scheer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238624

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A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories by Tobias Scheer Pdf

This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?

Author : Tobias Scheer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511113

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Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation by Tobias Scheer Pdf

Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacritics such as hash-marks in SPE or prosodic constituency since the early 80s, which mediate between morpho-syntax and phonology, are illegal in a modular environment where computational systems can only process domain-specific vocabulary. Direct Interface instead holds that only truly phonological vocabulary can carry morpho-syntactic information. It is shown that of all representational objects only syllabic space qualifies. Couched in CVCV (or strict CV), i.e. Government Phonology, this insight is then applied in detailed case studies of Belarusian, Corsican, Greek and the exhaustive lexical inventory of sonorant-obstruent-initial words in 13 Slavic languages,. In this sense, the book is the 2nd volume of A Lateral Theory of Phonology (2004).

Author : Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210304

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The Morphosyntax-phonology Connection by Vera Gribanova,Stephanie S. Shih Pdf

The contributions included in this volume arise from the Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface, which took place at Stanford University on 12-14 October 2012.

Author : Tobias Scheer
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 161451108X

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A Lateral Theory of Phonology by Tobias Scheer Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : S.J. Hannahs,Anna Bosch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317382133

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The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory by S.J. Hannahs,Anna Bosch Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defined as the systematic organisation of the sounds of human language. For some, this includes aspects of both the surface phonetics together with systematic structural properties of the sound system; for others, phonology is seen as distinct from, and autonomous from, phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory surveys the differing ways in which phonology is viewed, with a focus on current approaches to phonology. Divided into two parts, this handbook: covers major conceptual frameworks within phonology, including: rule-based phonology; Optimality Theory; Government Phonology; Dependency Phonology; and connectionist approaches to generative phonology; explores the central issue of the relationship between phonetics and phonology; features 23 chapters written by leading academics from around the world. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory is an authoritative survey of this key field in linguistics, and is essential reading for students studying phonology.

Author : Marco Patriarca,Els Heinsalu,Jean Leó Leonard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108480659

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Languages in Space and Time: Models and Methods from Complex Systems Theory by Marco Patriarca,Els Heinsalu,Jean Leó Leonard Pdf

Demonstrates how complexity theory and statistical mechanics help define the language groups and model the language dynamics.

Author : Sabrina Bendjaballah,Ali Tifrit,Laurence Voeltzel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110691979

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Perspectives on Element Theory by Sabrina Bendjaballah,Ali Tifrit,Laurence Voeltzel Pdf

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume provides an overview and extension of this program, exploring new lines of research within phonology and at its interface (phonetics and syntax). The present collection reflects on issues concerning the definition of privative primes, their interactions, organization, and the operations that constrain phonological and syntactic representations. The contributions reassess theoretical questions, which have been implicitly taken for granted, regarding privativity and its corollaries. On the empirical side, it explores the possibilities ET offers to analyze specific languages and phonological phenomena.

Author : Yoshihito Dobashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429671173

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Externalization by Yoshihito Dobashi Pdf

This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning how syntactic objects are mapped to the sensorimotor system through the processes of externalization. Elaborating on recent progress in the theories of labelling and workspace-based syntactic derivation, this book further develops a null theory of the prosodic domains, and recasts these as the domains of interpretation that are reducible to more fundamental concepts of linguistic theory. Phonological phrases are characterized by Minimal Search, a third factor principle of efficient computation. Intonational phrases are taken to be reflexes of the termination of syntactic derivation, which is formulated in terms of the workspace to which MERGE applies. This book explores the new implications this theory has for the general architecture of grammar as well as for linguistic interfaces. It provides a comprehensive review of the development of theories of the syntax-phonology interface from over the past three decades. The book is well-suited for general linguistic readers as well as phonologists, syntacticians, and any linguist interested in interface research.

Author : Haruo Kubozono,Junko Ito,Armin Mester
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192642417

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Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces by Haruo Kubozono,Junko Ito,Armin Mester Pdf

This volume brings together new work on prosody and prosodic interfaces from international experts in the field. The book is divided into three parts that explore topics in word prosody and phrase prosody, lexical tone and intonation, and the syntax-prosody interface. While many recent studies have focused on prosody and related questions, a significant number of languages, dialects, and varieties remain largely undocumented or understudied in this respect. The chapters in this volume help to fill this empirical gap, with investigations into languages such as Choguita Rarámuri (Mexico), Poko (Papua New Guinea), Rere (Sudan), and Uspanteko (Guatemala), alongside more widely studied languages such as Japanese and Serbian. The authors also address a range of important questions pertaining to, for example, the interactions between lexical and postlexical tones and the relationship between prosodic and syntactic structure. The volume as a whole sheds light on how prosody is structured in language and how it functions in human communication.

Author : Jeroen van de Weijer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110730098

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Segmental Structure and Representations by Jeroen van de Weijer Pdf

Representing Phonological Detail Part I: Segmental Structure and Representations Part II: Syllable, Stress and Sign Part I of Representing Phonological Detail focuses on the latest phonological research on a range of issues. The first main theme in this volume is vowel representation, with special attention paid to topics such as vowel harmony and other vocalic processes (e.g., historical umlaut, vowel epenthesis, and the representation of vowel quality and height). The second main theme is consonant representation and consonantal processes (including laryngeal phonology and stop insertion). Finally, the acquisition of phonology and the interface between phonology and morphosyntax are examined, attending in particular to boundary symbols, morphological blends, and the status of recursion in phonology and syntax.

Author : Amanda Seidl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136710216

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Minimal Indirect Reference by Amanda Seidl Pdf

This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCBK:C117511958

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Journal of Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Zsiga
Publisher : Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748681795

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The Phonetics/Phonology Interface by Elizabeth Zsiga Pdf

Is speech in the mouth or in the brain? Do we hear with our ears or with our minds? How different can phonology and phonetics be? How similar? Where exactly does the border between them lie?

Author : Joaquín Romero,María Riera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268105

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The Phonetics–Phonology Interface by Joaquín Romero,María Riera Pdf

This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of articles that deal with some of the fundamental issues in the field, from first and second language acquisition to segmental and supra-segmental phenomena in a range of different languages. Unique features of this volume are the development of innovative experimental methodologies, advanced techniques of data analysis, latest-generation equipment for the observation of speech, and their combined critical application to the study of the phonetics-phonology interface. The volume is therefore not only of great interest but of outstanding value and importance to anyone who wishes to be completely apprised of the latest advances in this crucial area of phonological research.

Author : Tobias Scheer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110908336

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What is CVCV and why should it be? by Tobias Scheer Pdf

This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to the familiar arboreal structure. This book shows that Standard Government Phonology did not go far enough in implementing this idea. CVCV completes the missing steps: structure and causality are fully lateralised. Detailed discussion is offered how basic phonological objects and processes such as Codas, closed syllables, long vowels, geminates, syllabic consonants, vowel-zero alternations, closed syllable shortening, compensatory lengthening, lenition and the like can be represented within the CVCV frame. The first part of the book is called "What is CVCV ?". It presents the properties of the theory. The second part focuses on the reasons why it is worthwhile considering CVCV a valuable and viable approach. The primary goal of the book is not to engage the dialogue with other phonological theories. Rather, it aims at establishing a player in the general game: defining the properties of a theory is always prior to its comparison with other models. In the current OT-dominated phonological scene, then, CVCV appears as a true theory of the 80s insofar as it is representational at core: representations exist and are primitive, rather than arising as accidental results from a heterogeneous set of constraints. The original analyses presented in this book are grounded in the languages that the author is best familiar with, i.e. (Western) Slavic, French, German and some Semitic. Particular attention is paid to diachronic evidence in its relation to the synchronic state of languages.