Full Description
This book brings together phonologists working in different areas to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives, the basic building blocks that are at the heart of phonological structure and over which phonological computations are carried out. Whether these units are referred to as features, elements, gestures, or something else entirely, the assumptions that are made about them are fundamental to modern phonological theory. Even so, there is limited consensus on the specifics of those assumptions. The chapters in this book present differing perspectives on phonological primitives and their implications, addressing some of the most pressing issues in the field such as how many features there are; whether those features are privative or binary; and whether segments need to be specified for all features. The studies cover a wide range of methodologies and domains, including experimental work, fieldwork, language acquisition, theory-internal concerns, and many more, and will be of interest to phoneticians and phonologists from all theoretical backgrounds.
Contents
1: Marijn van 't Veer, Bert Botma, Florian Breit, and Marc van Oostendorp: The structure and content of phonological primitives
2: Bert Vaux and Brett Miller: On the atoms of phonological representation
3: Antonio Baroni: On the phonological interpretation of
4: Marijn van 't Veer: Feature co-occurrence constraints in acquisition
5: Daniel Currie Hall: Contrast and content in phonological features: Substance use in moderation
6: Hyunsoon Kim: Features or gestures in speech production and perception? The case of Korean
7: Pavel Iosad: The ATR/laryngeal connection and emergent features
8: Aditi Lahiri and Sandra Kotzor: Consonants, vowels, and nasality: A FUL approach
9: Geoffrey Schwartz: The phonetic underpinnings of phonological specifications: All gradience is not created equal.
10: Tanner Sorensen and Adamantios Gafos: The relation between gestures and kinematics
11: Typhanie Prince: The case of substitutions in adult aphasia and in typical acquisition of French: Revisiting element theory
12: Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, Bert Botma, and Janet Grijzenhout: Towards a quantized representation of phonological stop contrasts
