Shaping phonology / edited by Diane Brentari and Jackson L. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brentari, Diane, editor.

Lee, Jackson L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Autosegmental theory (Linguistics).

Computational linguistics--Methodology.

Computational linguistics.

Computational learning theory.

Physical Description:

xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Summary:

Within the past forty years, the field of phonology?a branch of linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as how these features of language are used to convey meaning?has undergone several important shifts in theory that are now part of standard practice. Drawing together contributors from a diverse array of subfields within the discipline, and honoring the pioneering work of linguist John Goldsmith, this book reflects on these shifting dynamics and their implications for future phonological work. Divided into two parts, Shaping Phonology first explores the elaboration of abstract domains (or units of analysis) that fall under the purview of phonology. These chapters reveal the increasing multidimensionality of phonological representation through such analytical approaches as autosegmental phonology and feature geometry. The second part looks at how the advent of machine learning and computational technologies has allowed for the analysis of larger and larger phonological data sets, prompting a shift from using key examples to demonstrate that a particular generalization is universal to striving for statistical generalizations across large corpora of relevant data. Now fundamental components of the phonologist?s tool kit, these two shifts have inspired a rethinking of just what it means to do linguistics.

Contents:

Part I: Autosegmental phonology . A. History. The secret history of prosodic and autosegmental phonology / John Coleman

A brief history of autosegmental phonology with special reference to its founder / William R. Leben

B.applications to tone. The autosegmental approach to tone in Lusoga / Larry M. Hyman

Tonal melodies in the Logoori verb / David Odden

C. Extensions of the theory. Autosegments are not just features / D. Robert Ladd

The importance of autosegmental representations for sign language phonology / Diane Brentari

Abstract underlying representations in prosodic structure / Bert Vaux and Bridget D. Samuels

Sonority waves in syllabification / Caroline Wiltshire

Toward progress in theories of language sound structure / Mark Liberman

Part II: Computation and unsupervised learning. On the discovery procedure / Jackson L. Lee

Model selection and phonological argumentation / James Kirby and Morgan Sonderegger

The dynamics of prominence profiles: from local computation to global patterns / Khalil Iskarous and Louis Goldstein

French liaison in the light of corpus phonology: from lexical information to patterns of usage variation / Bernard Laks, Basilio Calderone, and Chiara Celata

A phonological approach to the unsupervised learning of root-and-pattern morphology / Aris Xanthos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226562452

022656245X

OCLC:

1004255669