Shaping Phonology / Jackson L. Lee, Diane Brentari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brentari, Diane, editor.

Lee, Jackson L., editor.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

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:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

PART ONE. Autosegmental Phonology

A. History: 1. The Secret History of Prosodic and Autosegmental Phonology / Coleman, John

A. History: 2. A Brief History of Autosegmental Phonology with Special Reference to Its Founder / Leben, William R.

B. Applications to Tone: 3. The Autosegmental Approach to Tone in Lusoga / Hyman, Larry M.

B. Applications to Tone: 4. Tonal Melodies in the Logoori Verb / Odden, David

C. Extensions of the Theory: 5. Autosegments Are Not Just Features / Ladd, D. Robert

C. Extensions of the Theory: 6. The Importance of Autosegmental Representations for Sign Language Phonology / Brentari, Diane

C. Extensions of the Theory: 7. Abstract Underlying Representations in Prosodic Structure / Vaux, Bert / Samuels, Bridget D.

C. Extensions of the Theory: 8 Sonority Waves in Syllabification / Wiltshire, Caroline

C. Extensions of the Theory: 9 Toward Progress in Theories of Language Sound Structure / Liberman, Mark

PART TWO. Computation and Unsupervised Learning

10. On the Discovery Procedure / Lee, Jackson L.

11. Model Selection and Phonological Argumentation / Kirby, James / Sonderegger, Morgan

12. The Dynamics of Prominence Profiles: From Local Computation to Global Patterns / Iskarous, Khalil / Goldstein, Louis

13. French Liaison in the Light of Corpus Phonology: From Lexical Information to Patterns of Usage Variation / Laks, Bernard / Calderone, Basilio / Celata, Chiara

14. A Phonological Approach to the Unsupervised Learning of Root-and- Pattern Morphology / Xanthos, Aris

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

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ISBN:

0-226-56259-X

OCLC:

1035556702