Paradigms In Phonological Theory

Author : Laura J. Downing,T. Alan Hall,Renate Raffelsiefen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199267715

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Paradigms in Phonological Theory by Laura J. Downing,T. Alan Hall,Renate Raffelsiefen Pdf

This book presents new insights on the phonology-morphology interface. It discusses a wide range of central theoretical issues, including the role of paradigms in synchronic grammars, and does so in the context of a wide variety of languages including several non-Indo-European languages. Paradigm uniformity has a long tradition in pre-generative linguistics but until recently played a minor role in theoretical phonology. Optimality Theory has drawn renewed attention to paradigmatic effects, formalized by constraints comparing the surface pronunciation of morphologically related words. The ten chapters in this volume illustrate how a wide range of exceptions to regular phonological processes can be explained in this fashion. The chapters address such important theoretical questions as: do paradigms have a morphological base? If so, how is it defined? Why do paradigmatic effects hold for only certain subsets of words? In which areas of the grammar are paradigmatic effects likely to be found? The authors discuss new data from the synchronic grammars of a wide variety of unrelated languages, including: Modern Hebrew, Chimwiini and Jita (Bantu), Halkomelem (Salish), Hungarian, and Arabic.

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 : Ben Hermans,Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294920

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The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory by Ben Hermans,Marc van Oostendorp Pdf

Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical levels, the cycle, and intrinsic and extrinsic rule ordering, among other things. OT in its standard form, on the other hand, represents a minimalist theory of derivations, recognizing only a direct mapping from input to output. This volume addresses questions from many different points of view by a number of outstanding scholars: Is this minimal theory sufficiently well-equipped to deal with the empirical complications of natural language or do we need a larger 'derivational residue' in our theory? What are the relevant facts and how can we deal with them? Are there any reasons to think that an OT-based approach to derivations may even be more successful than its rule-based competitors? The book also features an introduction into the general issues involved and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Daniel A. Dinnsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008730981

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Current Approaches to Phonological Theory by Daniel A. Dinnsen Pdf

Author : John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444343045

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The Handbook of Phonological Theory by John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu Pdf

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print

Author : Michael Kenstowicz,Charles Kisseberth
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483277578

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Topics in Phonological Theory by Michael Kenstowicz,Charles Kisseberth Pdf

Topics in Phonological Theory is a six-chapter text that provides an explication of some of the most important problems in phonological theory, with a few, necessarily tentative, solutions. The first chapter deals with the problem of abstractness in terms of a series of successively weaker constraints that might be placed on the relationship between the underlying and phonetic representations of a morpheme. The second chapter begins with a discussion of the various ways in which the phonetic basis of a rule may be lost in the course of historical change, which lays the groundwork for a lengthy survey of the types of grammatical and lexical conditions that may control the application of a phonological rule. The third chapter describes the constraints and conditions on phonological representations, particularly the domain of these constraints, the level at which they hold, and their duplication of phonological rules. The fourth chapter examines the problem of natural rule interactions, focusing on Kiparsky’s theories of maximal utilization and opacity-transparency and their deficiencies. The fifth chapter deals with Chomsky and Halle’s simultaneous application principle as well as with more recent proposals The sixth chapter compares the relative merits of global rules versus rule ordering for the description of opaque rule interactions. This book is intended primarily for linguistics.

Author : Mark Hale,Charles Reiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199533961

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The Phonological Enterprise by Mark Hale,Charles Reiss Pdf

Mark Hale and Charles Reiss present a fundamental critique of the phonological enterprise. They examine the nature of phonological acquisition and its relation to an innate acquisition device, consider the distinction between competence and performance, and evaluate competing explanations of diachronic phonology.

Author : Frans L. Hinskens,Roeland van Hout,W. Leo Wetzels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275967

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Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory by Frans L. Hinskens,Roeland van Hout,W. Leo Wetzels Pdf

There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the conceptual and theoretical levels. Phonological theory may well profit from a greater use of what is commonly called ‘external evidence’. This volume contains contributions by outstanding representatives from the more data-oriented fields and phonological theory. They discuss possibilities and problems for a further integration of both areas, by considering questions such as where and to which extent the two may need each other, and whether there is a need for an interdisciplinary conceptual framework and methodology. Attention is also paid to questions regarding the cause and actuation, linguistic constraints and the internal spread of linguistic change, as well as to possible and impossible processes of language change.

Author : Bert Vaux,Andrew Nevins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191527661

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Rules, Constraints, and Phonological Phenomena by Bert Vaux,Andrew Nevins Pdf

This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates in phonological and linguistic theory: should the explanation of phonological variety be constraint or rule-based and, in the light of the resolution of this question, how in the mind does phonology interface with other components of the grammar. The book includes contributions from leading proponents of both sides of the argument and an extensive introduction setting out the history, nature, and more general linguistic implications of current phonological theory.

Author : Peter Avery,B. Elan Dresher,Keren Rice
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208603

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Contrast in Phonology by Peter Avery,B. Elan Dresher,Keren Rice Pdf

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract representation-based theories, as well as chapters that focus on functional phonetic theories and perceptual constraints. This book will be of interest to phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, researchers in first and second language acquisition, and cognitive scientists interested in current thinking on this exciting topic.

Author : Didier L. Goyvaerts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270856

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Phonology in the 1980’s by Didier L. Goyvaerts Pdf

This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology.

Author : John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118798010

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The Handbook of Phonological Theory by John A. Goldsmith,Jason Riggle,Alan C. L. Yu Pdf

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains Brings together a renowned and international contributor team Offers new and unique reflections on the advances in phonological theory since publication of the first edition in 1995 Along with the first edition, still in publication, it forms the most complete and current overview of the subject in print

Author : Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405184236

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The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 5 Volume Set by Marc van Oostendorp Pdf

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

Author : Laura J. Downing
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191536731

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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology by Laura J. Downing Pdf

Prosodic morphology concerns the interaction of morphological and phonological determinants of linguistic form and the degree to which one determines the other. This is the first book devoted to understanding the definition and operation of canonical forms - the invariant syllabic shapes of morphemes - which are the defining characteristic of prosodic morphology. Dr Downing discusses past research in the field and provides a critical evaluation of the current leading theory which, she shows, is empirically inadequate. She sets out an alternative approach and tests this in a cross-linguistic analysis of phonological and morphological forms over a wide range languages, including several not previously been studied from this perspective. Prosodic morphology has been the testing ground for theoeretical developments in phonology over the past twenty years, from autosegmental theory to optimality theory. This book will be of central interest to specialists in phonology and morphology, as well as to advanced students of these fields and of linguistic theory more generally.

Author : Marie Engemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111018096

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Paradigm uniformity in inflectional stems by Marie Engemann Pdf

What happens phonetically in the production of stems in words such as days and daze? Do inflectional stems differ phonetically from monomorphemic words? Can these differences be perceived? This volume aims to answer these questions in a replication project by investigating data from two corpora and a production experiment, as well as by extending this research with two perception experiments. It investigates what happens phonetically in the stems of words that end in homophonous suffixes, and whether listeners can perceive these subtle phonetic differences. Two potential effects were termed; categorical paradigm uniformity, in which stems of words ending in [s, z] are expected to have longer durations if these words are morphologically complex (e.g. days is longer than daze), as well as gradient paradigm uniformity, in which the frequency of related words is expected to have an influence on paradigm members (e.g. day influences days). Findings from these studies contribute to a growing body of research in the field of morphophonetics.