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Korean vowel harmony has weak phonotactic support and has limited productivity Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jinyoung Jo
Chong (2017) claims that a derived environment process is productive to the extent that it is supported by phonotactics. The present study tests this claim by comparing variable patterns observed in Korean vowel harmony of suffix alternation with vowel co-occurrence restrictions in the lexicon. A corpus study replicated findings of previous studies that the harmony in suffix alternation is losing productivity
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A unified model of lenition as modulation reduction: gauging consonant strength in Ibibio Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 John Harris, Eno-Abasi Urua, Kevin Tang
We review and elaborate an account of consonantal strength that is founded on the model of speech as a modulated carrier signal. The stronger the consonant, the greater the modulation. Unlike approaches based on sonority or articulatory aperture, the account offers a uniform definition of the phonetic effect lenition has on consonants: All types of lenition (such as debuccalisation, spirantisation
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Learning biases in proper nouns Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Yu Tanaka
It has been proposed that there are cognitive biases in language learning that favour certain patterns over others. This study examines the effects of such bias factors on the learning of the phonology of proper nouns. I take up the phenomenon of compound voicing in Japanese surnames. The results of two judgment experiments show that, while Japanese speakers replicate various kinds of statistical regularities
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Implicit and explicit processes in phonological concept learning Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Elliott Moreton, Katya Pertsova
Non-linguistic pattern learning uses distinct implicit and explicit processes, which differ in behavioural signatures, inductive biases and proposed model architectures. This study asked whether both processes are available in phonotactic learning in the lab. Five Internet experiments collected generalisation, learning curves, response times and detailed debriefings from 671 valid participants. Implicit
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The stratal structure of Kuria morphological tone Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jochen Trommer
Marlo et al. (2015) claim that Kuria verbal tone morphology undermines three well-established principles of locality and modularity: (1) Phonological Locality: the assumption that rules and constraints may only evaluate a small window of phonological objects; (2) Cyclic Locality: the stratal organization of morphophonology into stems, words and phrases; and (3) Indirect Reference: the claim that phonological
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Stratal overgeneration is necessary: metrically incoherent syncope in Southern Pomo Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Max J. Kaplan
Southern Pomo (Pomoan, California) displays a process of rhythmic vowel deletion (syncope) reflecting two mutually incompatible metrical structures. This phenomenon, called metrical incoherence, can be derived by an ordered sequence of independent subgrammars, that is, strata. Metrical incoherence is under-attested crosslinguistically, and the stratal models of phonology necessary to generate it have
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Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa) Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Nadezhda Makeeva, Natalia Kuznetsova
This study examines phonological and phonetic properties of ATR contrasts in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa). The sum of descriptive evidence, including vowel harmony, vowel distribution in non-harmonising contexts, vowel reduction and typological and etymological considerations, indicates a rare vowel inventory with an ATR contrast in front/back vowels but a height contrast in the three redundantly
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Phonetically incomplete neutralisation can be phonologically complete: evidence from Huai’an Mandarin Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Naiyan Du, Karthik Durvasula
The phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation describes a situation where a putative case of categorical phonological neutralisation is observed to be phonetically non-neutralising. This has been argued to be a problem for phonological theories that employ categorical features. Here, we use two distinct feeding orders of tone sandhi processes from Huai’an Mandarin to show that incomplete phonetic neutralisation
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Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Florian Lionnet, Laura McPherson, Nicholas Rolle
Tone is distinct from other phonological phenomena both qualitatively and quantitatively (Hyman 2011), and has been instrumental in shaping phonological theory in many ways. However, the contributions to current linguistic theory of “grammatical tone’ (GT) – a type of non-concatenative morphology where a morpheme is expressed at least in part by tone and/or tone changes – have been less apparent. In
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Tone and morphological level ordering in Dagaare Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Arto Anttila, Adams Bodomo
Dagaare is a language of northern Ghana and adjoining areas of Burkina Faso. There are two tones, H and L, and contrastive downstep H!H that involves a non-automatic pitch drop between two H tones. The challenge is to explain the extensive morphological conditioning of tonal processes, including dissimilation, downstep and spreading. Our solution involves level ordering: tones are introduced at different
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Exponence and the functional load of grammatical tone in Gyeli Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Nadine Grimm
Grammatical tone (GT) can be the sole exponent or a co-exponent of grammatical meaning (Hyman 2012; Rolle 2018), but there has been little discussion of how they distribute within a single language. In this article, I explore the relationship between tonal and segmental materials in Gyeli (Bantu A801, Cameroon), adopting a property-driven approach to phonological typology (Plank 2001; Hyman 2009).
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Phonology cannot transpose: evidence from Meto Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Kate Mooney
Metathesis poses challenges for a typologically constrained theory of phonology: despite being simple to describe, its distribution is highly restricted, making it difficult to create analyses that make predictions while not overgenerating. Here, I investigate metathesis in Uab Meto (Austronesian; Indonesia), an understudied language with CV metathesis that is synchronic and productive. Drawing on
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Grammatical and lexical sources of allomorphy in Amuzgo inflectional tone Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Yuni Kim
Amuzgo (Otomanguean: Mexico) has a large inventory of lexically arbitrary tonal inflection classes in person/number paradigms, where inflectional tones overwrite the root's lexical tone. In causatives, however, inflectional tones are predictable from phonological properties of the root, primarily lexical tone. The inertness of root inflection classes in causatives is argued to follow from cyclicity:
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Grammatical tone mapping in Ekegusii Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Larry M. Hyman, Hildah Kemunto Nyamwaro
A major issue in Bantu morphophonology is how to get the right tones in the right ‘cells’ in the verb paradigm. In many Bantu languages, grammatical tones are assigned to different positions in the verb stem depending on inflectional features of tense, aspect, mood (TAM), polarity and clause type: The same TAM may assign different tones (and different segmental allomorphs) in the affirmative vs. negative
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The atomic properties of stress Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Nate Koser
This article posits a theory of iterative stress that separates each facet of the stress map into its constituent parts, or ‘atoms’. Through the well-defined notion of complexity provided by Formal Language Theory, it is shown that this division of the stress map results in a more restrictive characterisation of iterative stress than a single-function analysis does. While the single-function approach
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Degenerate feet in phrasal phonology: evidence from Latin and Ancient Greek Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Kevin M. Ryan
Degenerate feet, even when forbidden in isolated words, can arise within phrases due to resyllabification. In particular, when a stressed monosyllable of the shape C0VC (where V is short) undergoes resyllabification in Latin and Ancient Greek, it yields a degenerate foot. While degenerate feet were tolerated in prose, they were avoided in hexameter verse. Even though a degenerate foot is a kind of
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The features and geometry of tone in Laal Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Florian Lionnet
Features are standard in segmental analysis but have been less successfully applied to tone. Subtonal features have even been argued to be less satisfactory for the representation of African tone than tonal primitives such as H, M, L (Hyman 2010; Clements et al. 2010). I argue that the two-feature system of Yip (1980) and Pulleyblank (1986) offers a straightforward account of the tonology of Laal,
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Flexible syntax–prosody mapping of Intonational Phrases in the context of varying verb height Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Lena Borise, David Erschler
This paper provides new evidence in support of the hypothesis that the syntax–prosody mapping of Intonational Phrases is flexible (Hamlaoui and Szendrői 2015). In the traditional ‘rigid’ approaches, Intonational Phrases are taken to map onto particular syntactic projections. In contrast, in the ‘flexible’ approach, the Intonational Phrase corresponds to the highest projection of the verb (HVP). Accordingly
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Tone-driven epenthesis in Wamey Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Nicholas Rolle, John T. M. Merrill
This paper argues that tone-driven epenthesis is possible in tonal languages. In Wamey, an epenthetic [ə] is inserted to host a high tone in two contexts: first, to host a tone which would otherwise be left floating due to a restriction on rising tones (/cv̀cⒽ/ maps to [cv̀cə́] due to a ban *[cv̌c]); and second, to host a tone which is introduced by word-level morphology but is restricted from associating
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A restrictive, parsimonious theory of footing in directional Harmonic Serialism Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Andrew Lamont
This paper develops a theory of footing in Harmonic Serialism (HS; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004; McCarthy 2000, 2016) where Con contains only directionally evaluated constraints (Eisner 2000, 2002; Lamont 2019, 2022a, 2022b). Directional constraints harmonically order candidates by the location of violations rather than the total number of violations. A central result of adopting directional evaluation
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An acoustic study of Tetsǫ́t’ıné stress: Iambic stress in a quantity-sensitive tone language Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Alessandro Jaker, Phil J. Howson
This paper presents both distributional and acoustic phonetic evidence for iambic stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné (ISO: CHP), a Dene (Athapaskan) language with contrastive vowel length and four contrastive tones. In our acoustic study, we find that the primary correlate of stress in Tetsǫ́t'ıné is duration, whereas intensity plays a secondary but statistically significant role. There was no statistically significant
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Parallelism within serialism: primary stress is different Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Kathryn Pruitt
Primary word stress is typologically diverse. In some languages, the metrical structure of a word predicts the location of primary stress, while in other languages it does not. This diversity is considered through the lens of Harmonic Serialism (HS), a serial constraint-based theory, and it is argued that HS must incorporate a limited degree of parallelism to capture the typology. Namely, primary-stress
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Featural affixation and sound symbolism in Fungwa Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Samuel Akinbo
Fungwa marks the diminutive by fronting non-high vowels of nominal roots and the augmentative by backing non-high vowels of nominal roots. The root-vowel mutation is considered to be an effect of diminutive and augmentative morphemes which have [―back] and [+back] features as their phonetic exponents. The form–meaning association of the morphemes is consistent with the pattern of sound-size symbolism
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Community interactions and phonemic inventories in emerging sign languages Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Diane Brentari, Rabia Ergin, Ann Senghas, Pyeong Whan Cho, Eli Owens, Marie Coppola
In this work, we address structural, iconic and social dimensions of the emergence of phonological systems in two emerging sign languages. A comparative analysis is conducted of data from a village sign language (Central Taurus Sign Language; CTSL) and a community sign language (Nicaraguan Sign Language; NSL). Both languages are approximately 50 years old, but the sizes and social structures of their
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Dominance is non-representational: evidence from A'ingae verbal stress Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Maksymilian Dąbkowski
A'ingae (or Cofán) is a language isolate spoken in the Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon. This study presents a description and analysis of the language's morphologically conditioned verbal stress assignment. Specifically, I show that A'ingae verbal morphemes can be classified with two binary parameters: the presence or absence of prestressing and the presence or absence of stress deletion (i.e. dominance)
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Intervocalic lenition is not phonological: evidence from Campidanese Sardinian Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Jonah Katz
This paper develops a model of lenition in Campidanese Sardinian. The model treats lenition (and its inverse, fortition) as a predictable consequence of gradient changes in duration associated with prosodic structure. A more typical approach to lenition processes in Campidanese and other languages is to treat them as changes in phonological features. I show here that a phonetic model operating on the
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Perspectives on final laryngeal neutralisation: new evidence from Polish Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Geoffrey Schwartz, Kamil Kaźmierski, Ewelina Wojtkowiak
An acoustic experiment on final devoicing in Polish, aimed at providing new data on incomplete neutralisation, is described. The experiment was modelled on a study of German by Roettger et al. (2014), who mitigated possible effects of orthography by employing a word-formation task based on auditory stimuli, eliciting stop-final nonce words with underlying final voiced or voiceless stops. Our results
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Optimality Theory implements complex functions with simple constraints Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Andrew Lamont
While attested phonological mappings appear to be regular, Optimality Theory is known to implement more complex functions. This squib contributes to the computational characterisation of Optimality Theory by constructing a grammar that implements a non-pushdown function. By using only simple, familiar constraints, the result suggests that a large proportion of optimality-theoretic grammars are more
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Variation in Breton word stress: new speakers and the influence of French Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Holly J. Kennard
This paper investigates stress patterns in Breton across speakers of different ages and with different linguistic backgrounds. Centuries of contact with French have led to French influence in Breton lexis, phonology and morphosyntax, and Breton's current status as an endangered minority language makes it vulnerable to further change. Additionally, younger ‘new speakers’ of Breton, who have acquired
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Homophony avoidance in the grammar: Russian nominal allomorphy Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Andrei Munteanu
It has long been observed that languages tend to preserve contrast, either by introducing sound changes or by inhibiting them. However, it is not clear if any instances of so-called homophony avoidance reported to date constitute an active synchronic restriction in the grammar. This paper presents an instance of homophony avoidance in Russian masculine nouns. A perception experiment shows that the
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Articulatory coordination distinguishes complex segments from segment sequences Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Jason A. Shaw, Sejin Oh, Karthik Durvasula, Alexei Kochetov
Phonological patterning motivates a distinction between complex segments and segment sequences, although it has also been suggested that there might be reliable phonetic differences. We develop the hypothesis that, in addition to their distinct phonological patterning, complex segments differ from segment sequences in how constituent articulatory gestures are coordinated in time. Through computational
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The diachronic origins of Lyman's Law: evidence from phonetics, dialectology and philology Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Timothy J. Vance, Shigeto Kawahara, Mizuki Miyashita
Modern Japanese has a set of morphophonemic alternations known collectively as rendaku that involve initial consonants in second elements of compounds, as in /jama+dera/ ‘mountain temple’ (cf. /tera/ ‘temple’). An alternating element like /tera/ ~ /dera/ has an initial voiced obstruent in its rendaku allomorph and an initial voiceless obstruent in its non-rendaku allomorph. Lyman's Law blocks rendaku
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Probing syllable structure through acoustic measurements: case studies on American English and Jazani Arabic Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Karthik Durvasula, Mohammed Qasem Ruthan, Sarah Heidenreich, Yen-Hwei Lin
Previous research has found that different syllabic (particularly simplex vs. complex onset) organisations have different temporal stability signatures in articulations – this observation is based entirely on articulatory measurements. In this article, we present the results of three production experiments which show that similar correlations between onset organisation and temporal stability metrics
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The phonological determinants of tone in English loanwords in Mandarin Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Eleanor Glewwe
This paper presents the results of a corpus study and an online loanword adaptation experiment examining the tonal adaptation of English loanwords in Mandarin. Using maximum entropy models, I control for the substantial influences of lexical tone distributions and standardisation, and uncover phonological determinants of tone beyond these lexical and conventional factors. The most important phonological
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Modelling Mandarin speakers’ phonotactic knowledge Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Shuxiao Gong, Jie Zhang
This paper investigates the nature of native Mandarin Chinese speakers’ phonotactic knowledge via an experimental study and formal modelling of the experimental results. Results from a phonological well-formedness judgement experiment suggest that Mandarin speakers’ phonotactic knowledge is sensitive not only to lexical statistics, but also to grammatical principles such as systematic and accidental
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Morphosyntax–phonology mismatches in Muskogee Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Peter Ara Guekguezian
The mismatching of morphosyntactic and phonological domains inside words provides a testing ground for models of the morphosyntax–phonology interface. This paper describes a pattern of morphosyntax–phonology mismatches in Muskogee. Muskogee verbs are spelled out at two phases, vP and CP, resulting in two phonological domains, which this paper models as ω-recursion. The vP phase and ωmin are mismatched:
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Matching overtly headed syntactic phrases in Italian Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Nicholas Van Handel
In this paper, I develop an analysis of the Italian syntax–prosody interface in Match Theory, revisiting three φ-diagnostics from previous work: word-final vowel deletion, stress retraction and final lengthening. I show that these processes sometimes diverge in their distribution, supporting the existence of two phrasal domains in Italian. These domains are analysed using prosodic recursion. I then
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Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen (eds.) (2020). The Oxford handbook of language prosody. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. lvi + 891. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Jeremy Steffman
The Oxford handbook of language prosody, edited by Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen, is a collection comprised of 49 chapters divided into eight parts, with contributions from 121 researchers and nearly 700 pages of content. As these numbers might suggest, this volume is expansive. In introducing the handbook, the editors note that volumes focusing on one aspect of prosody (e.g. intonational phonology)
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Daniel Recasens (2020). Phonetic causes of sound change: the palatalization and assibilation of obstruents. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 42.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xviii + 203. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Darya Kavitskaya
In Phonetic causes of sound change: the palatalization and assibilation of obstruents, Daniel Recasens investigates the phonetic motivation for the ‘softening’ of velar and labial stops to (alveolo-)palatal affricates or fricatives (traditionally called ‘palatalisation’), arguing for the articulation-based nature of this sound change and for the necessity of an intermediate stage of an (alveolo-)palatal
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Gereon Müller (2020). Inflectional morphology in harmonic serialism. (Advances in Optimality Theory.) Sheffield & Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing. Pp. x + 350. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Itamar Kastner
In Inflectional morphology in harmonic serialism (IMHS), Gereon Müller provides proof of concept for a new theory of the morphology–phonology interface. IMHS proposes a lexicalist (presyntactic), realisational theory of morphology, built around the tenets of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2008): the derivation begins with the root and proceeds through the affixes, whereby the optimal exponent is selected
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Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition in the Spanish of Gran Canaria Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Karolina Broś, Marzena Żygis, Adam Sikorski, Jan Wołłejko
This study explores ongoing lenition of postvocalic /p t k b d g/ in the Spanish of Gran Canaria. Duration, intensity and harmonics-to-noise ratio of 16,454 sounds produced by 44 native speakers were measured, with the latter phonetic parameter used for the first time to investigate lenition. The results show a path of gradual sound shortening and opening from voiceless stops to open approximants,
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Moraic reversal and realisation: analysis of a Japanese language game Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Daiho Kitaoka, Sara Mackenzie
This paper provides a description and an Optimality Theory analysis of the Japanese language game sakasa kotoba. This analysis contributes to the phonological study of language games, as sakasa kotoba constitutes a novel language game type: total mora reversal. In addition, our analysis contributes to the study of Japanese phonology, by providing evidence (i) for the mora, (ii) on the internal structure
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The dynamical landscape: phonological acquisition and the phonology–phonetics link Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Beata Łukaszewicz
During acquisition children internalise adult-based phonological patterns and alternately adopt and discard child-specific patterns reflecting their unskilled production. The child-specific patterns are often assumed to be low-level phonetic effects, and so, in a classical modular feedforward grammar, they should not interfere with the higher-level adult-based phonology. This paper reports an interaction
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Polarity in a four-level tone language: tone features in Tenyidie Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Savio M. Meyase
This paper reports a new kind of tone polarity, where the phenomenon is seen in a language with four level tones, Tenyidie (also known as Angami). I show that the polarity is in the features of the tones, i.e. at a subtonal level. The data also provide evidence that tones themselves can be broken down into smaller features. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the polarity pattern observed in the language
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Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso (eds.) (2020). In search of basic units of spoken language: a corpus-driven approach. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 94.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. xi + 440. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Sandrien van Ommen
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Estimating historical probabilities of natural and unnatural processes Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Gašper Beguš
This paper presents a technique for estimating the influences of channel bias on phonological typology. The technique, based on statistical bootstrapping, enables the estimation of historical probability, the probability that a synchronic alternation arises based on two diachronic factors: the number of sound changes required for an alternation to arise and their respective probabilities. I estimate
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Constraint cumulativity in phonotactics: evidence from artificial grammar learning studies Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Canaan Breiss
An ongoing debate in phonology concerns the treatment of cumulative constraint interactions, or ‘gang effects’, and by extension the question of which phonological frameworks are suitable models of the grammar. This paper uses a series of artificial grammar learning experiments to examine the inferences that learners draw about cumulative constraint violations in phonotactics in the absence of a confounding
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Incorporating tone in the modelling of wordlikeness judgements Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Youngah Do, Ryan Ka Yau Lai
Various phonotactic models have been proposed for the prediction of wordlikeness judgements, most of which have focused primarily on segments. This article aims to model wordlikeness judgements when tone is incorporated. We first show how the two major determinants of wordlikeness judgements, i.e. phonotactic probability and neighbourhood density, can be measured when tone is involved. To test the
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Level ordering and opacity in Tetsǫ́t’ıné: a Stratal OT account Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Alessandro Jaker, Paul Kiparsky
Dene (Athabaskan) verbs are widely known for their complex morphophonology. The most complex patterns are associated with two conjugation markers, /s/ and /n/, which are associated with a floating H tone to their immediate left. In this paper, we provide an analysis of /θe/ and /ɲe/, the reflexes of the /s/ and /n/ conjugations in Tetsǫ́t’ıné. Whereas previous accounts of these conjugations have relied
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Weight and final vowels in the English stress system Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Claire Moore-Cantwell
This paper presents both dictionary evidence and experimental evidence that the quality of a word's final vowel plays a role in assigning main stress in English. Specifically, a final [i] pushes main stress leftwards – three-syllable words ending with [i] have a strong tendency to take antepenultimate stress. This pattern is compared with the Latin Stress Rule for English, according to which words
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Coalescence as autosegmental spreading and delinking Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Joanna Zaleska
Phonological coalescence, understood as a type of synchronic alternation in which two phonological elements seem to fuse into one, presents a prima facie challenge for versions of Optimality Theory that assume the principle of containment. If all underlying material has to be present in the output form, replacing two input elements with a single output element is not straightforward. I argue that,
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Alice Turk and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (2020). Speech timing: implications for theories of phonology, phonetics, and speech motor control. (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics 5.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xv + 370. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Jason A. Shaw
There is increasing awareness that the temporal dimension of speech, in particular the relative timing of speech movements, contains rich information about phonological structure. Relating abstract phonological structure to the temporal unfolding of realistically variable speech data remains a major interdisciplinary challenge. It is this challenge that is taken up in Speech timing: implications for
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Kuniya Nasukawa (ed.) (2020). Morpheme-internal recursion in phonology. (Studies in Generative Grammar 140.) Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. ix + 415. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Péter Szigetvári
Recursion is a key concept in both the organisation and the origin of language, claims Kuniya Nasukawa, the editor of this collection of papers (p. 1). If this is indeed the case, recursion ought to be found not only in syntax, but also in phonology. Phonologists are divided on whether phonology ‘proper’, i.e. the structure of syllables and segments, in fact involves recursion. The papers presented
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Elena Babatsouli (ed.) (2020). On under-reported monolingual child phonology. (Communication Disorders across Languages 19.) Bristol & Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. Pp. xxi + 453. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Beata Łukaszewicz
This edited volume is a collection of papers on phonological development and language disorders, compiled in honour of David Ingram in recognition of his contribution to these fields of study. There is also some initial focus on the International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC), which for about forty years has served as the conference for the child phonology research community. The book is the 19th
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André Zampaulo (2019). Palatal sound change in the Romance languages: diachronic and synchronic perspectives. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 38.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xii + 229. Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Carolina González
Zampaulo’s monograph aims to accomplish a daunting task: to connect the historical pathways that resulted in various palatal outcomes in Romance to current palatal synchronic variation in this language family, and to provide a phonetically grounded formal analysis for both. The volume is organised into seven chapters. The first three provide a general introduction to the volume, the theoretical framework
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Positional faithfulness drives laxness alternations in Slovenian Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Michael Becker, Peter Jurgec
We analyse the distribution of vowel laxness and stress alternations in Slovenian nouns (for example in the nominative and genitive forms of the masculine noun [ˈjɛzik ~ jeˈzika] ‘tongue’), showing that stress shifts away from mid lax vowels in initial syllables. A stress shift of this sort is predicted by positional faithfulness (Beckman 1997). We show that this prediction is correct, contra McCarthy
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Summing constraints in and across properties Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Wm. G. Bennett, Natalie DelBusso
Work in Optimality Theory on the constraint set, Con, has often raised the question of whether certain types of constraints have multiple specific versions or are single general constraints that effectively sum the violations of specific variants. Comparing and evaluating analyses that differ in this way requires knowing the effect of this kind of summing on the full typology, which itself depends
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A wug-shaped curve in sound symbolism: the case of Japanese Pokémon names Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Shigeto Kawahara
An experiment showed that Japanese speakers’ judgement of Pokémons’ evolution status on the basis of nonce names is affected both by mora count and by the presence of a voiced obstruent. The effects of mora count are a case of counting cumulativity, and the interaction between the two factors a case of ganging-up cumulativity. Together, the patterns result in what Hayes (2020) calls ‘wug-shaped curves’
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Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Dmitry Nikolaev, Eitan Grossman
The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In this paper, we test the explanatory power of this principle by conducting a study of the co-occurrence of consonant segments in phonological inventories, based on a sample of 2761 languages. We show that the feature-economy principle
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Morphologically conditioned phonology with two triggers Phonology (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Hannah Sande
Morphologically conditioned phonology, where a particular phonological alternation or requirement holds only for a subset of lexical items or in a subset of morphological contexts, is well documented. This paper expands on the literature by examining phonological alternations where two independent triggering morphemes must both be present for a phonological alternation to apply. Several cases of doubly