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Where Do Phonological Features Come From? Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories

Clements G. Nick Ridouane Rachid
Innbundet / 2011 / Engelsk

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9789027208231
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2011-07-28
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Where Do Phonological Features Come From? Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories

Clements G. Nick Ridouane Rachid
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There is no more important question facing linguistics today than the question of how linguistic knowledge is represented in the brain. There is no better entree to an understanding of that question than phonology/phonetics. There is no better collection of articles than these to point the way. This is a volume worthy of the memory of Nick Clements, visionary yet solidly grounded in the present.

- Samuel Jay Keyser, Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, MIT,

[F]eature theory has always attempted to offer an explanation for the way sounds are extracted from the acoustic signal and how their composing units are organized and stored in the brains of language users, so as to enable inter-speaker oral communication. The present volume speaks to the core of this issue. It provides a solid set of groundbreaking papers [...].

- André Zampaulo, The Ohio State University, Linguist List,

This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.
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Offers a reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically coherent.
1. Table of contents; 2. Obituary (by Clements, G. Nick); 3. List of contributors; 4. Editors' overview (by Ridouane, Rachid); 5. Features, segments, and the sources of phonological primitives (by Cohn, Abigail C.); 6. Feature economy in natural, random, and synthetic inventories (by Mackie, Scott); 7. Sound systems are shaped by their users: The recombination of phonetic substance (by Lindblom, Bjorn); 8. What features underline the /s/ vs. /s'/ contrast in Korean?: Phonetic and phonological evidence (by Kim, Hyunsoon); 9. Automaticity vs. feature-enhancement in the control of segmental F0 (by Hoole, Philip); 10. Categorization and features: Evidence from American English /r/ (by Archangeli, Diana); 11. Features as an emergent product of computing perceptual cues relative to expectations (by McMurray, Bob); 12. Features are phonological transforms of natural boundaries (by Serniclaes, Willy); 13. Features in child phonology: Inherent, emergent, or artefacts of analysis? (by Menn, Lise); 14. Phonological features in infancy (by Cristia, Alejandrina); 15. Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of 2-3-year-olds learning American English (by Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie); 16. Language index; 17. Subject index
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There is no more important question facing linguistics today than the question of how linguistic knowledge is represented in the brain. There is no better entree to an understanding of that question than phonology/phonetics. There is no better collection of articles than these to point the way. This is a volume worthy of the memory of Nick Clements, visionary yet solidly grounded in the present.

- Samuel Jay Keyser, Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, MIT,

[F]eature theory has always attempted to offer an explanation for the way sounds are extracted from the acoustic signal and how their composing units are organized and stored in the brains of language users, so as to enable inter-speaker oral communication. The present volume speaks to the core of this issue. It provides a solid set of groundbreaking papers [...].

- André Zampaulo, The Ohio State University, Linguist List,

This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.
Les mer
Offers a reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically coherent.
1. Table of contents; 2. Obituary (by Clements, G. Nick); 3. List of contributors; 4. Editors' overview (by Ridouane, Rachid); 5. Features, segments, and the sources of phonological primitives (by Cohn, Abigail C.); 6. Feature economy in natural, random, and synthetic inventories (by Mackie, Scott); 7. Sound systems are shaped by their users: The recombination of phonetic substance (by Lindblom, Bjorn); 8. What features underline the /s/ vs. /s'/ contrast in Korean?: Phonetic and phonological evidence (by Kim, Hyunsoon); 9. Automaticity vs. feature-enhancement in the control of segmental F0 (by Hoole, Philip); 10. Categorization and features: Evidence from American English /r/ (by Archangeli, Diana); 11. Features as an emergent product of computing perceptual cues relative to expectations (by McMurray, Bob); 12. Features are phonological transforms of natural boundaries (by Serniclaes, Willy); 13. Features in child phonology: Inherent, emergent, or artefacts of analysis? (by Menn, Lise); 14. Phonological features in infancy (by Cristia, Alejandrina); 15. Acoustic cues to stop-coda voicing contrasts in the speech of 2-3-year-olds learning American English (by Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie); 16. Language index; 17. Subject index
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789027208231
Publisert
2011-07-28
Utgiver
Vendor
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Vekt
810 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Redaktør
Clements G. Nick
Ridouane Rachid

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