Where Do Phonological Features Come From

Author : George N. Clements,Rachid Ridouane
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027208231

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Where Do Phonological Features Come From? by George N. Clements,Rachid Ridouane Pdf

This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.

Author : Annie Rialland,Rachid Ridouane,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110399981

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Features in Phonology and Phonetics by Annie Rialland,Rachid Ridouane,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

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Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.

Author : T. Alan Hall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886672

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Distinctive Feature Theory by T. Alan Hall Pdf

This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, Portuguese, Tahltan, Terena, Tswana, Tuvan, and Zoque. The subjects dealt with in the book include feature geometry, underspecification (in rule-based and in Opti-mality Theoretic treatments) and the phonetic implementation of phonological features. Other topics include laryngeal features (e.g. [voice], [spread glottis], [nasal]), and place features for consonants and vowels. The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on feature theory and/or the phonetics-phonology interface.

Author : Pieter Reenen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111404226

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Phonetic Feature Definitions by Pieter Reenen Pdf

Author : John A. Goldsmith,Elizabeth Hume,Leo Wetzels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110246223

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Tones and Features by John A. Goldsmith,Elizabeth Hume,Leo Wetzels Pdf

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Author : Annie Rialland,Rachid Ridouane,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110399997

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Features in Phonology and Phonetics by Annie Rialland,Rachid Ridouane,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

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."

Author : Patricia A. Keating
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521024080

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Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form by Patricia A. Keating Pdf

Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form brings together work from phonology, phonetics, speech science, electrical engineering, psycho- and sociolinguistics. The chapters are organized in four topical sections. The first is concerned with stress and intonation; the second with syllable structure and phonological theory; the third with phonological features; and the fourth with "phonetic output." This volume will be important in making readers aware of the range of research relevant to questions of linguistic sound structure.

Author : Paula Orzechowska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811372995

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Complexity in Polish Phonotactics by Paula Orzechowska Pdf

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived. A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation. This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.

Author : Dominik Borner,Eva Neubert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638369992

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Phonological Characteristics of American English by Dominik Borner,Eva Neubert Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Bamberg, course: Proseminar: English Varieties, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Even to non-native speakers of the English language it is in most cases an easy task to differentiate between British and American native speakers by listening to their pronunciation. In this term paper the most characteristic phonological features of American English will be named and explained and an overview of the variety of dialects within the United States will be provided. This can be done best by using British Standard English – also known as Received Pronunciation (RP) – as reference accent and pointing out the differences to American English. 2. General American However, it is hard to work with the term American English when doing a phonological analysis of American speech since it covers a broad spectrum of different dialects. For this reason the term General American (GA), which is widely used and preferred by most linguists today, will be introduced and worked with. General American can be seen as the Standard English of North America, but in contrast to Received Pronunciation, it is not defined by social reputation or a specific geographical origin. Throughout the United States one can not really find a socially preferred accent that is commonly recognized as the standard pronunciation. There have been several different approaches to defining a Standard English for the USA and in this paper General American will be used in means of a range of accents that do not exhibit any of the North-Eastern or Southern features which “are perceived as regional by the majority of American speakers.” One has to keep in mind that GA is not “a single and totally homogeneous accent. But since its internal variation is mainly a matter of differences in the phonetic realizations of a system of phonemes that is by and large shared by all GA speakers, the generalization expressed in the notion ‘General American’ is useful in phonological terms.”

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139451468

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Evolutionary Phonology by Juliette Blevins Pdf

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.

Author : David Odden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521826693

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Introducing Phonology by David Odden Pdf

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Author : L. F. Brosnahan,Bertil Malmberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052121100X

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Introduction to Phonetics by L. F. Brosnahan,Bertil Malmberg Pdf

This introductory textbook in general phonetics was first published in 1976. It will be of use to all with an interest in the nature and working of the sound substance of human language, such as students of phonetics and linguistics, teachers and students of modern languages, speech therapists and audiologists. The emphasis is on the basics: the organs of speech and hearing, the methods of sound production in the vocal tract, the types of sound used in human languages, and the process of speech perception. The focus of attention is always the tongue and ear of the phonetician as an investigator of speech, rather than his instruments or experiments, with due attention paid to the phoneme and the distinctive feature, the units in that border area where phonetics and the study of languages come together.

Author : Jacques Durand,Francis Katamba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317896838

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Frontiers of Phonology by Jacques Durand,Francis Katamba Pdf

Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of phonological features; the role and structure of the skeletal tier and syllable structure; and the competing claims of derivational and declarative approaches to phonology. The book provides a forum for lively discussion of important theoretical topics from various standpoints including metrical and autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology and declarative phonology. The contributors, who are protagonists of these different standpoints, compare notes and show the merits of their different approaches. The essays discussing derivational issues offer an excellent introduction to the area of constraints based phonology, and by covering the phonology of many languages the book provides an understanding of how human languages in general use sound.

Author : Arthur Brakel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4350316

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Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features by Arthur Brakel Pdf

Author : Hanna Krause
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656979739

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Phonological Features of the Consonant System of African American Vernacular English by Hanna Krause Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This term paper will give a descriptive summary of the sound patterns used in African American vernacular English, but will also go further by discussing the linguistic environments in which such patterns occur. It is restricted to the phonological features of the consonant system of African American vernacular English (AAVE) and does not deal with the characteristics of the vowel system. Furthermore, this term paper should show that speakers of AAVE do not haphazardly insert and delete sound and that it is not fair to evaluate the sounds as “lazy speech” since the patterns used in the sound system of AAVE are completely regular and the way in which sound combinations occur, is very systematic and based on defined rules. This work also tries to make clear what AAVE is and in which ways it is different and similar to general American and Standard English. The first chapter introduces two different theories about the question how African American English might have been developed. In some contexts, it has been suggested that the pattern of final consonant sounds in AAE has similarities with the pattern of final consonant sounds in West African languages. Part two deals with the feature of consonant cluster reduction, which has received the most attention in the phonological studies of AAE. Speakers do not always say the same thing the same way all the time, of course, so the percentage rate of reduction may be greater for some speakers than others Chapter 3 focuses on the fact that interdental fricatives, represented orthographically by th in Standard English, are often realized by labio- dental fricatives among some AAE speakers. It reveals that voicing value of consonant sounds plays a major role in the production of sounds. For example /f/ and /v/ occur in environments in which voiceless th and voiced th occur in Standard English. Part 4 concentrates on the feature of devoicing and especially on the correlation of the variable /d/ with social class. Data adopted from Wolfram helps to study the speech of Negroes from several socio- economic levels and shows the relationship between the use of sound patterns and extralingusitic factors. Chapter 5 continues the discussion of consonants, focusing on the liquids /r/ and /l/. It explains environments in which /r/ is not produced by speakers of AAE. The last chapter lists some other phonological features of AAVE, but not in a detailed way, as there is not enough data available.