Headhood, elements, specification, and contrastivity : phonological papers in honor of John Anderson / edited by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Colin J. Ewen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, John M. (John Mathieson), 1941-

Carr, Philip, 1953-

Durand, Jacques, 1947-

Ewen, Colin J.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 259.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 259

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Contrastive linguistics.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 405 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2004.

Summary:

The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson - the founder of Dependency Phonology - and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are best conceived of in terms of a set of privative elements (rather than as binary-valued features); and the related notions of contrastivity and specification (and non-specification). An important issue dealt with is the relationship between specification and derivationality, and the question whether derivations are necessary in phonological theory. Many of the contributions provide sound empirical support for the appeal to elements and to headhood at all levels of phonological analysis. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in phonological theory.

Contents:

HEADHOOD, ELEMENTS, SPECIFICATION AND CONTRASTIVITY

Editorial page

Tiitle page

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Contents

John M. Anderson. A brief profile of the man and his career in linguistics

John M. Anderson: Publications 1968-2004

List of contributors

Introduction. The structure of phonological representations

Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen

Salience, headhood and analogies

Philip Carr

1. Introduction

2. Anderson and the generative tradition

3. Structural analogy

4. An analogy between phonology and semantics

5. Salience and individual pathways in acquisition

6. Conclusion

Old English I-umlaut: A unitary sound change?

Fran Colman

1. Background

2. West Saxon IU formulated

3. West Saxon IU reformulated

4. Anglian IU

5. Kentish IU

Old English breaking and syllable structure

Mike Davenport

2. Old English Breaking: an outline

3. The OEB environments

4. The OEB environment and syllable structure

5. Double trouble: OEB and geminates

6. Double or quits: word-final /x/ again

Tense/Lax, the vowel system of English and phonological theory

Jacques Durand

2. Three approaches to vowel systems: a brief historical sketch

3. Tense/lax in English and phonetic evidence

4. Revisiting length in English

5. Is there a place for the feature tense/lax in English?

Headedness and defective distributions in Polish

Edmund Gussmann

Vowel reduction as information loss

John Harris

2. Centrifugal and centripetal reduction

3. Vowel reduction in functional Optimality Theory

4. Vowel reduction as information loss in the speech signal

5. Vowel reduction as information loss in phonology

6. Teleology of vowel reduction: attention vs. effort.

Tone and dependency in Yorùbá

Phil Harrison

2. [L] and phonetic signatures

3. Yorùbá prosodic constituents

4. The form and content of Yorùbá nuclear domains

5. Typological context: other languages and universality

6. The sound of prosody

Sharing makes us stronger

Patrick Honeybone

2. Prosody, melody and segmental structure

3. Processes, environments, inhibition and strength

4. Lenition inhibition: generalisations and proposals

5. Case studies of process inhibition

6. Conclusions

The molecular structure of phonological segments

Harry van der Hulst

2. Manner

3. Place

4. Laryngeal

5. Nasality

6. Incomplete structures

7. Complex segments

8. Some correspondences with Government Phonology

9. Conclusions

Appendices

Representation and the role of underspecification in declarative phonology

Ken Lodge

2. Declarative Phonology

3. Spin-offs underspecification

4. Postscript

Heads I win, tails you lose

April McMahon

1. Optimality Theory: an embarrassment of riches

2. Prosody, melody and evolution

3. Extending the argument: prosody, melody and acquisition

4. Prosodic conditioning of melody and melodic conditioning of prosody

5. An evolutionary perspective

How a phonological theory of headedness can account for strong vs. weak phonetic alternants

Nancy A. Ritter

2. v and its phonetic realisations around the world

3. Hungarian v: a case study for Head-Driven Phonology

4. Conclusions

The aperture particle |a| its role and functions

Sanford Schane

1. The elements of particle phonology

2. Some vowel systems

3. The functions of |a|

4. Some vowel processes affecting height, laxness and RTR

5. Particle phonology and markedness.

6. Conclusion

Towards a Taw-based phonological representation of place

Jørgen Staun

1. Preamble: aims and assumptions

2. The basic components

3. The vowel space

4. Consonantal place

5. Closing remarks

References

Language index

Name index

Subject index

The Series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-15696-9

9786612156960

90-272-9469-0

OCLC:

705531223