Laboratory phonology 8 / edited by Louis Goldstein, D.H. Whalen, Catherine T. Best.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Conference in Laboratory Phonology, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Goldstein, Louis, 1955-

Whalen, D. H.

Best, Catherine T.

Conference Name:

Conference in Laboratory Phonology (8th : 2002 : New Haven, Conn.)

Series:

Phonology and phonetics ; 4-2.

Phonology and phonetics, 1861-4191 ; 4-2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Sign language--Congresses.

Sign language.

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (692 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Laboratory phonology eight

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers from Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (held in New Haven, CT) explores what laboratory data that can tell us about the nature of speakers' phonological competence and how they acquire it, and outlines models of the human phonological capacity that can meet the challenge of formalizing that competence. The window on the phonological capacity is broadened by including, for the first time in the Laboratory Phonology series, work on signed languages and papers that explicitly compare signed and spoken phonologies. A major focus, cutting across signed and spoken phonologies, is that phonological competence must include both qualitative (or categorical) and quantitative (or variable) knowledge. Theoretical approaches represented in the collection for accommodating these types of knowledge include modularity, dynamical grammars, and probabilistic grammars. A second major focus is on the acquisition of this knowledge. Here the papers pursue the consequences for acquisition of taking into account the richness and variability of the adult systems that provide input to the child. The final focus is on how phonological knowledge guides speech production. Data and models address the question of how speech gestures interact with one another locally (through articulatory constraints and syllable-level organization) and how they interact with the prosodic structure of an utterance. The twenty-six papers in the collection include invited contributions from Diane Brentari, David Corina, David Perlmutter, D. Robert Ladd, Diamandis Gafos, Marilyn Vihman, Shelley Velleman, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, and Dani Byrd.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction

Dedication

I. Qualitative and variable faces of phonological competence

"Distinctive phones" in surface representation

The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of the past-tense formation

Dynamics in grammar: Comment on Ladd and Ernestus & Baayen

The statistical basis of an unnatural alternation

Modeling intonation in English: A probabilistic approach to phonological competence

The diachrony of labiality in Trique, and the functional relevance of gradience and variation

Effects of language modality on word segmentation: An experimental study of phonological factors in a sign language

Phonological, phonetics and the nondominant hand

Lexical retrieval in American Sign Language production

Phonological priming in British Sign Language

Phonetic implementation and phonetic pre-specification in sign language phonology

Variability in verbal agreement forms across four signed languages

Some current claims about sign language phonetics, phonology, and experimental results

II. Sources of variation and their role in the acquisition of phonological competence

Getting the rhytm right: A cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words

Flexibility in the face incompatible English VOT systems

On the scope of phonological learning: Issues arising from socially-structured variation

Variation in developing phonologies: Comments on Vihman and colleagues, Docherty and colleagues, and Scobbie

III. Knowledge of language-specific organization of speech gestures

Prosody first or prosody last? Evidence from the phonetics of word-final /t/ in American English

Focusing, prosodic phrasing, and hiatus resolution in Greek

Early vs. late focus: Pitch-peak alignment in two dialects of Serbian and Croatian

Manifestation of prosodic structure in articulatory variation: Evidence from lip kinematics in English

Relating prosody and dynamic events: Comments on the papers by Cho and Smiljanić

Syllable position effects and gestural organization: Articulatory evidence from Russia

Perceptual salience and palatalization in Russian

Integrating coarticulation, assimilation, and blending into a model of articulatory constraints

Excrescent schwa and vowel laxing: Cross-linguistic: responses to conflicting articulatory targets

Backmatter

Notes:

"The Eighth conference on Laboratory Phonology (held in New Haven, CT, and hosted by Yale University and Haskins Laboratories) took place June 27-29, 2002"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612073083

9781282073081

1282073087

9783110197211

3110197219

OCLC:

437195756