Full Description
Written by a team of leading experts, this groundbreaking handbook provides the first comprehensive and current account of Natural Linguistics. It offers a state-of-the-art survey of the theoretical developments that have arisen from, or are related to, the framework of Natural Phonology - across subfields as diverse as phonology, morphology, morphophonology, syntax, pragmatics and text linguistics. The handbook is split into five parts, with chapters covering the origins, foundational principles, semiotic, cognitive and functional bases of Natural Linguistics, as well as external evidence for the theory, and a critical appraisal of its position amongst modern linguistic theories. It fills a gap in the available accounts of modern linguistic theories and demonstrates the potential of the theory to a wider audience, addressing both advocates of the school, and those who are open to alternative approaches to linguistic science. It will be a definitive reference work on Natural Linguistics for years to come.
Contents
Introduction Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Patricia Donegan and Wolfgang U. Dressler; Part I. The Historical Foundation: Natural Phonology: 1. Historical roots of natural phonology Richard Wojcik; 2. The nature of natural processes Patricia Donegan; 3. Processes and rules Richard A. Rhodes, Geoffrey Nathan and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 4. Sound change, naturalness, and word shape probability Nikolaus Ritt; 5. Second language phonology Šárka Šimáčková and Patricia Donegan; Part II. Interpreting 'Natural': Natural Linguistics and Related Perspectives: 6. Semiotic, cognitive and functional bases of natural linguistics Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dimitrios Meletis and Hans Basbøll; 7. Evolutionary perspectives on natural linguistics: concepts and methods Andreas Baumann and Nikolaus Ritt; 8. Self-organization in acquisition Wolfgang U. Dressler and Sarah Brogden Payne; 9. The relationship between frequency and phonological naturalness Ian Maddieson; Part III. Beyond Phonology: 10. Natural morphology Livio Gaeta and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 11. Natural syntax: a case study of negation William O'Grady; 12. Phonotactics and morphonotactics Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Paula Orzechowska, Paulina Zydorowicz and Andreas Baumann; 13. Text and pragmatics in natural linguistics Elisa Mattiello and Wolfgang U. Dressler; Part IV. External Evidence: 14. Refining representations for natural phonology Geoffrey Schwartz; 15. First language acquisition Paulina Zydorowicz and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 16. From processes to cross-linguistic influence: different perspectives in phonological acquisition Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Magdalena Wrembel and Anna Balas; 17. Extragrammatical and marginal morphology and poetic creativity Elke Ronneberger-Sibold and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 18. Bridging natural linguistics with neuro-cognition in people with speech and language impairments Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos, Paula Orzechowska and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 19. Quantitative methods in phonological argumentation Andreas Baumann and Kamil Kaźmierski; Part V. Views From Outside: The Position of Natural Linguistics Among Modern Linguistic Theories: 20. Natural linguistics and generative grammar Tobias Scheer; 21. Natural linguistics and optimality theory Fernando Sánchez-Miret; 22. Cognitive phonology Geoffrey S. Nathan; 23. Complex systems: complexity as a criterion on the continuum of naturalness Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 24. Naturalness, preference and reality: views from fieldwork, computation and acoustics Dafydd Gibbon.
