Simultaneous structure in phonology / D. Robert Ladd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladd, D. Robert, 1947- author.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xvi, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This text surveys the range of well-known non-sequential phonological phenomena that are problematic for the traditional one-dimensional idealisation of language. It makes a valuable contribution to phonology and phonetics, focusing on the role of these simultaneous features in the relation between phonological representations and the speech signal.

Contents:

1 Gesture, feature, autosegment 1

1.1 The problem 1

1.2 Features and autosegments 2

1.2.1 Features: particles or attributes? 2

1.2.2 The rise and fall of the autosegment 6

1.2.3 Further implications of feature spreading 9

1.2.4 The autosegment redux: temporal sequence vs. abstract order 11

1.3 Features and gestures 15

1.3.1 Phonological relatedness and phonetic similarity 15

1.3.2 The feature's two faces: a gesture-based alternative 17

1.3.3 Features in written language 21

1.3.3.1 Analogues to phonology and phonetics in alphabetic scripts 22

1.3.3.2 Substantive and distributional properties 24

1.3.4 A functional basis for phonological naturalness? 26

2 Phonetics in phonology 29

2.1 Introduction 29

2.2 Systematic phonetics in phonology 31

2.2.1 The phone 31

2.2.2 Distinctive features 37

2.3 Systematic phonetics in its own right 41

2.3.1 Systematic phonetics as universal categorization 41

2.3.2 Systematic phonetics as interface representation 44

2.3.3 What systematic phonetics could be a theory of 48

2.3.4 Segmental, suprasegmental, autosegmental 49

2.4 Where do we go from here? 51

3 Defining prosody 57

3.1 Lexicographical prelude 57

3.2 The story of 'prosody' 58

3.2.1 The classical background 58

3.2.2 Twentieth-century linguistics 59

3.3 'Prosody' as miscellany 63

3.3.1 An alphabetic artefact? 63

3.3.2 Definitions and lists 65

3.4 Distinctions that may be relevant to the definition of prosody 66

3.4.1 Source vs. filter 67

3.4.2 Non-verbal vs. verbal 68

3.4.3 Suprasegmental vs. segmental 69

3.4.4 Prosodic vs. inherent 70

3.4.5 Syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic 72

3.4.6 Slower vs. faster periodicity 73

3.5 So what 15 prosody? 74

3.6 Appendix 76

3.6.1 Definitions of words corresponding to English prosody and prosodic in dictionaries in other European languages 76

3.6.2 Google Scholar search of titles containing prosody and prosodic 77

3.6.3 Dictionaries consulted in preparing this chapter 81

4 Modulations 85

4.1 Indexical and propositional content 85

4.2 Gradience 87

4.3 Paralanguage 91

4.3.1 Gradience in paralanguage 91

4.3.2 Cultural and contextual interpretation of paralinguistic signals 93

4.4 Implications for phonology 95

4.4.1 Segment-level effects of paralinguistic cues 95

4.4.2 Sociophonetic variation 98

4.4.3 Categorical modulation: ablaut and ideophones 101

5 On duality of patterning 107

5.1 Introduction 107

5.2 Brief history of the idea 108

5.2.1 'Duality of Patterning' and 'Double Articulation' 108

5.2.2 Duality of patterning and productivity 110

5.3 Duality of patterning and spoken language phonology 111

5.3.1 Are phonemes meaningless? 112

5.3.2 Is phonological structure exhaustive? 115

5.3.2.1 Multiple complementary distribution 116

5.3.2.2 Quasi-contrasts 117

5.3.2.3 Unique and marginal phonemes 118

5.4 Duality of patterning in visual language systems 119

5.4.1 Signed languages 120

5.4.2 Chinese writing 124

5.5 Redefining duality of patterning 131

5.5.1 'A phonological system and a grammatical system' 131

5.5.2 Implications 134

6 Phonological events 139

6.1 Segmentation of continuous action 139

6.2 Simultaneous events and parallel streams 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.

ISBN:

9780199670970

0199670978

OCLC:

862100889