Lorraine McCune
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195177879
- eISBN:
- 9780199870202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177879.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter discusses the phonetic skills that serve the child in the construction of form/meaning correspondences: first the production of a repertoire of well-practiced consonant sounds, and ...
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This chapter discusses the phonetic skills that serve the child in the construction of form/meaning correspondences: first the production of a repertoire of well-practiced consonant sounds, and second the development of individual and systematic phonological motor patterns. Topics covered include phonetic skill at the transition to speech, vocal motor schemes (VMSs), VMS consonant repertoires and production of words, VMS repertoire as a measure of specific consonant skills related to language, and the use of VMS during the transition to reference. It is shown that both VMS development and template-based organization of the early lexicon exemplify the mutual regulation between sound and meaning. Once a greater capacity for mental representation has developed, this capacity prompts integrative application of phonetic capacities to potential word meanings experienced in the environment.Less
This chapter discusses the phonetic skills that serve the child in the construction of form/meaning correspondences: first the production of a repertoire of well-practiced consonant sounds, and second the development of individual and systematic phonological motor patterns. Topics covered include phonetic skill at the transition to speech, vocal motor schemes (VMSs), VMS consonant repertoires and production of words, VMS repertoire as a measure of specific consonant skills related to language, and the use of VMS during the transition to reference. It is shown that both VMS development and template-based organization of the early lexicon exemplify the mutual regulation between sound and meaning. Once a greater capacity for mental representation has developed, this capacity prompts integrative application of phonetic capacities to potential word meanings experienced in the environment.
San Duanmu
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199267590
- eISBN:
- 9780191708367
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Theoretical Linguistics
This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Standard Chinese, including sound frequencies and onset, rhyme, syllable, and tonal frequencies. It also discusses ...
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This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Standard Chinese, including sound frequencies and onset, rhyme, syllable, and tonal frequencies. It also discusses reasons for the many non‐occurring syllables, the [ɚ]‐suffix, syllabic consonants, homophone density, and syllable loss.Less
This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Standard Chinese, including sound frequencies and onset, rhyme, syllable, and tonal frequencies. It also discusses reasons for the many non‐occurring syllables, the [ɚ]‐suffix, syllabic consonants, homophone density, and syllable loss.
San Duanmu
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199267590
- eISBN:
- 9780191708367
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267590.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Theoretical Linguistics
This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Shanghai Chinese. Of interest is the fact that Shanghai has no diphthongs or contrastive codas. In addition, the ...
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This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Shanghai Chinese. Of interest is the fact that Shanghai has no diphthongs or contrastive codas. In addition, the rhyme inventory of Shanghai has shrunk drastically in the past 100 years.Less
This chapter offers an analysis of distribution patterns of sounds and syllables in Shanghai Chinese. Of interest is the fact that Shanghai has no diphthongs or contrastive codas. In addition, the rhyme inventory of Shanghai has shrunk drastically in the past 100 years.
Juliette Blevins
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199298495
- eISBN:
- 9780191711442
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298495.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
This chapter argues that there are clear natural and unnatural histories for patterns of consonant insertion which make no reference to syllable onset or segmental markedness. It offers new ways of ...
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This chapter argues that there are clear natural and unnatural histories for patterns of consonant insertion which make no reference to syllable onset or segmental markedness. It offers new ways of understanding the typology of C-epenthesis. Within the realm of natural history, glide epenthesis and laryngeal epenthesis are two distinct subtypes with different phonetic and phonological profiles. In the domain of unnatural histories, significant correlations are observed between consonants subject to coda weakening and those involved in epenthesis. This finding follows from our understanding of rule inversion as part of phonological acquisition. Finally, a mix of natural and unnatural history characterizes the analysis of Oceanic j-accretion and Ritwan l-sandhi.Less
This chapter argues that there are clear natural and unnatural histories for patterns of consonant insertion which make no reference to syllable onset or segmental markedness. It offers new ways of understanding the typology of C-epenthesis. Within the realm of natural history, glide epenthesis and laryngeal epenthesis are two distinct subtypes with different phonetic and phonological profiles. In the domain of unnatural histories, significant correlations are observed between consonants subject to coda weakening and those involved in epenthesis. This finding follows from our understanding of rule inversion as part of phonological acquisition. Finally, a mix of natural and unnatural history characterizes the analysis of Oceanic j-accretion and Ritwan l-sandhi.
Steve Hart
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390755
- eISBN:
- 9789888390465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390755.003.0018
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
This chapter presents spelling errors that are caused by confusing certain terms, picking up bad habits, and simply mistyping.
This chapter presents spelling errors that are caused by confusing certain terms, picking up bad habits, and simply mistyping.
Martin E. Atkinson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199234462
- eISBN:
- 9780191917455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199234462.003.0038
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Dentistry
Swallowing or deglutition is a series of closely integrated actions that propel the contents of the oral cavity through the pharynx and the oesophagus to ...
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Swallowing or deglutition is a series of closely integrated actions that propel the contents of the oral cavity through the pharynx and the oesophagus to the stomach and ensuring that they do not enter the lower respiratory tract. Some of these actions are voluntary whereas others are reflex. We tend to think of swallowing merely in terms of eating and drinking. In reality, a relatively small proportion of the total number of swallows performed in a day occurs during meals; the majority of them take place to clear excess saliva from the mouth. We are generally unconscious of salivary clearance swallows, but concentrate on your swallowing as you read this chapter—you will be surprised by how often you do swallow. A single swallow usually takes 1.5 to 2 seconds from mouth to stomach. This rapid action means that it is difficult to be absolutely categorical about the precise order of events. For convenience of description, swallowing is usually divided into three phases according to the position of the food but, in reality, the three phases are continuous with each other. The phases are: • The oral phase , usually subdivided into an oral preparatory phase and an oral phase ; • The pharyngeal phase ; • The oesophageal phase . The oral phase is voluntary whereas the second and third phases are reflex. In the oral preparatory phase , food is chewed to the right consistency, mixed with saliva, and collected into a single mass, the bolus , on the dorsum of the tongue. This subphase requires the muscles of mastication, suprahyoids and infrahyoids, used during mastication as described in Chapter 26 , together with the tongue muscles and the muscle of the lips and cheeks to push food between the teeth. The consistency of chewed food is measured by sensory receptors in the oral mucosa. The oral phase is initiated when food is judged to be of the right consistency. The bolus is pushed rapidly backwards towards the oropharynx by raising the tongue against the hard palate from front to back. This action is brought about by elevating the hyoid bone by the contraction of the suprahyoid muscles and the musculature of the tongue itself.
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Swallowing or deglutition is a series of closely integrated actions that propel the contents of the oral cavity through the pharynx and the oesophagus to the stomach and ensuring that they do not enter the lower respiratory tract. Some of these actions are voluntary whereas others are reflex. We tend to think of swallowing merely in terms of eating and drinking. In reality, a relatively small proportion of the total number of swallows performed in a day occurs during meals; the majority of them take place to clear excess saliva from the mouth. We are generally unconscious of salivary clearance swallows, but concentrate on your swallowing as you read this chapter—you will be surprised by how often you do swallow. A single swallow usually takes 1.5 to 2 seconds from mouth to stomach. This rapid action means that it is difficult to be absolutely categorical about the precise order of events. For convenience of description, swallowing is usually divided into three phases according to the position of the food but, in reality, the three phases are continuous with each other. The phases are: • The oral phase , usually subdivided into an oral preparatory phase and an oral phase ; • The pharyngeal phase ; • The oesophageal phase . The oral phase is voluntary whereas the second and third phases are reflex. In the oral preparatory phase , food is chewed to the right consistency, mixed with saliva, and collected into a single mass, the bolus , on the dorsum of the tongue. This subphase requires the muscles of mastication, suprahyoids and infrahyoids, used during mastication as described in Chapter 26 , together with the tongue muscles and the muscle of the lips and cheeks to push food between the teeth. The consistency of chewed food is measured by sensory receptors in the oral mucosa. The oral phase is initiated when food is judged to be of the right consistency. The bolus is pushed rapidly backwards towards the oropharynx by raising the tongue against the hard palate from front to back. This action is brought about by elevating the hyoid bone by the contraction of the suprahyoid muscles and the musculature of the tongue itself.
Andrew Nevins
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262140973
- eISBN:
- 9780262280570
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262140973.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Lexicography
Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a ...
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Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a sentence cannot go in just any order, and the study of phonology begins with the same observation for the consonants and vowels of a word. This book investigates long-distance relations between vowels in vowel harmony systems across a range of languages, with the aim of demonstrating that the locality conditions which regulate these relations can be attributed to the same principle that regulates long-distance syntactic dependencies. It argues that vowel harmony represents a manifestation of the Agree algorithm for feature-valuation (formulated by Noam Chomsky in 2000), as part of an overarching effort to show that phonology can be described in terms of the principles of the Minimalist Program. The book demonstrates that the principle of target-driven search, the phenomenon of defective intervention, and the principles regulating the size of the domain over which dependencies are computed apply to both phonological and syntactic phenomena. It offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework. Moreover, the book’s specific implementation of the locality of dependencies represents a major advance in understanding constraints on possible harmonic languages.Less
Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a sentence cannot go in just any order, and the study of phonology begins with the same observation for the consonants and vowels of a word. This book investigates long-distance relations between vowels in vowel harmony systems across a range of languages, with the aim of demonstrating that the locality conditions which regulate these relations can be attributed to the same principle that regulates long-distance syntactic dependencies. It argues that vowel harmony represents a manifestation of the Agree algorithm for feature-valuation (formulated by Noam Chomsky in 2000), as part of an overarching effort to show that phonology can be described in terms of the principles of the Minimalist Program. The book demonstrates that the principle of target-driven search, the phenomenon of defective intervention, and the principles regulating the size of the domain over which dependencies are computed apply to both phonological and syntactic phenomena. It offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework. Moreover, the book’s specific implementation of the locality of dependencies represents a major advance in understanding constraints on possible harmonic languages.
Joan Bybee
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195301571
- eISBN:
- 9780199867271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301571.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
This chapter examines sound changes that occur at the boundaries between two words, setting up more than one variant for a word. What happens in such cases is interesting, because it is common for ...
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This chapter examines sound changes that occur at the boundaries between two words, setting up more than one variant for a word. What happens in such cases is interesting, because it is common for bound morphemes to have multiple variants but not so common for words to have variant forms. Based on final [s] reduction in Spanish dialects, the chapter argues that the spread of the reduced variant from pre-consonantal position (the original phonetic environment) to pre-vocalic position is the generalization of the more frequent variant—that which occurs before consonants. This chapter shows the power of the usage-based approach in explaining linguistic phenomena: the effect of frequency can explain why a word boundary so often behaves like a consonant. The reason is that word boundaries are most often followed by consonants and the more frequent variant eventually takes over. A second point is that the data show that individual words tend to resolve a large range of variation toward having a single variant.Less
This chapter examines sound changes that occur at the boundaries between two words, setting up more than one variant for a word. What happens in such cases is interesting, because it is common for bound morphemes to have multiple variants but not so common for words to have variant forms. Based on final [s] reduction in Spanish dialects, the chapter argues that the spread of the reduced variant from pre-consonantal position (the original phonetic environment) to pre-vocalic position is the generalization of the more frequent variant—that which occurs before consonants. This chapter shows the power of the usage-based approach in explaining linguistic phenomena: the effect of frequency can explain why a word boundary so often behaves like a consonant. The reason is that word boundaries are most often followed by consonants and the more frequent variant eventually takes over. A second point is that the data show that individual words tend to resolve a large range of variation toward having a single variant.
CAROL LYNN MODER
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195301571
- eISBN:
- 9780199867271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301571.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
One particular class of irregular verbs in English, exemplified by string/strung, shows some productivity, offering an opportunity to understand further the factors that govern productivity. This ...
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One particular class of irregular verbs in English, exemplified by string/strung, shows some productivity, offering an opportunity to understand further the factors that govern productivity. This class is examined in the present chapter, and is shown to be defined by the phonological shape of the verb, including not just the final consonants, but also the initial ones. This chapter argues for product-oriented schemas on the basis of the fact that the vowel of the base is the least important factor in predicting class membership. Synchronic, diachronic, and experimental data indicate that speakers of natural language form categorizations of linguistic objects in the same way that they form categorizations of natural and cultural objects. These verbs are not categorized by properties of their meaning or by properties that associate them with external reality; rather, they are categorized by their form, that is, their phonological properties.Less
One particular class of irregular verbs in English, exemplified by string/strung, shows some productivity, offering an opportunity to understand further the factors that govern productivity. This class is examined in the present chapter, and is shown to be defined by the phonological shape of the verb, including not just the final consonants, but also the initial ones. This chapter argues for product-oriented schemas on the basis of the fact that the vowel of the base is the least important factor in predicting class membership. Synchronic, diachronic, and experimental data indicate that speakers of natural language form categorizations of linguistic objects in the same way that they form categorizations of natural and cultural objects. These verbs are not categorized by properties of their meaning or by properties that associate them with external reality; rather, they are categorized by their form, that is, their phonological properties.
Gerjan van Schaaik
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198851509
- eISBN:
- 9780191886102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198851509.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter presents the Latin-based alphabet of Turkish, which differs from that of English in the extra letters ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü, whereas it lacks q, w, and x. A detailed account is given of ...
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This chapter presents the Latin-based alphabet of Turkish, which differs from that of English in the extra letters ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü, whereas it lacks q, w, and x. A detailed account is given of vowels, of consonants not present in the English alphabet, and of consonants shared by both languages. The notions front and back for vowels are introduced, as well as the notions voiced versus voiceless for consonants. Next, attention is given to aspiration of voiceless plosives. The most conspicuous letters for which the phonological environment determines their sound value are r and ğ; the former being pronounced with a kind of rustling at the end of a word, and the latter functioning either as a lengthening marker or as a symbol representing the y-sound. This chapter ends with the Turkish telephone alphabet.Less
This chapter presents the Latin-based alphabet of Turkish, which differs from that of English in the extra letters ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü, whereas it lacks q, w, and x. A detailed account is given of vowels, of consonants not present in the English alphabet, and of consonants shared by both languages. The notions front and back for vowels are introduced, as well as the notions voiced versus voiceless for consonants. Next, attention is given to aspiration of voiceless plosives. The most conspicuous letters for which the phonological environment determines their sound value are r and ğ; the former being pronounced with a kind of rustling at the end of a word, and the latter functioning either as a lengthening marker or as a symbol representing the y-sound. This chapter ends with the Turkish telephone alphabet.
Laurence Labrune
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199545834
- eISBN:
- 9780191738562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545834.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
This chapter examines in turn each consonant of the Japanese system, presenting its main allophones and phonotactic characteristics. Special attention is dedicated to the phonology of the consonant ...
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This chapter examines in turn each consonant of the Japanese system, presenting its main allophones and phonotactic characteristics. Special attention is dedicated to the phonology of the consonant /h/ which has developed out of*/p/, and to the issue of the velar nasal, through an enlightening comparison of two competing approaches of the problem, that of Kindaichi Haruhiko (1942) and that of Junko Itô and Armin Mester (1997). This chapter also offers new insights on the phonology of the Japanese /r/ and on newly introduced consonants.Less
This chapter examines in turn each consonant of the Japanese system, presenting its main allophones and phonotactic characteristics. Special attention is dedicated to the phonology of the consonant /h/ which has developed out of*/p/, and to the issue of the velar nasal, through an enlightening comparison of two competing approaches of the problem, that of Kindaichi Haruhiko (1942) and that of Junko Itô and Armin Mester (1997). This chapter also offers new insights on the phonology of the Japanese /r/ and on newly introduced consonants.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199593569
- eISBN:
- 9780191739385
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593569.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Language Families
Unlike their Andean neighbours, Amazonian languages tend to have just one liquid phoneme (frequently, a flap). Some have no liquids at all. There are usually more affricates than fricatives. A ...
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Unlike their Andean neighbours, Amazonian languages tend to have just one liquid phoneme (frequently, a flap). Some have no liquids at all. There are usually more affricates than fricatives. A typical Amazonian vowel system includes a high central ɨ, something not typical for the Andes. We start with a bird’s eye view of consonants in Amazonian languages, and move on to unusual and rare sounds and sound systems. We then turn to syllable structure. Some Amazonian languages have large systems of nasal vowels; in others, nasalization, and glottalization are phonological processes. Many Amazonian languages have stress systems. Tones tend to be found in areal clusters, to the north and to the south of the River Amazon. There are very few Amazonian languages with more than just two tones. Some languages lose their tones as they become obscolescent. In Appendix, ‘How Amazonian languages compare with their neighbours’, we discuss South American languages spoken in the vicinity of Amazonia.Less
Unlike their Andean neighbours, Amazonian languages tend to have just one liquid phoneme (frequently, a flap). Some have no liquids at all. There are usually more affricates than fricatives. A typical Amazonian vowel system includes a high central ɨ, something not typical for the Andes. We start with a bird’s eye view of consonants in Amazonian languages, and move on to unusual and rare sounds and sound systems. We then turn to syllable structure. Some Amazonian languages have large systems of nasal vowels; in others, nasalization, and glottalization are phonological processes. Many Amazonian languages have stress systems. Tones tend to be found in areal clusters, to the north and to the south of the River Amazon. There are very few Amazonian languages with more than just two tones. Some languages lose their tones as they become obscolescent. In Appendix, ‘How Amazonian languages compare with their neighbours’, we discuss South American languages spoken in the vicinity of Amazonia.
Kristján Árnason
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199229314
- eISBN:
- 9780191728464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199229314.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
Chapter 1 describes the demography of the two languages and their historical relation, tracing them back to ‘Proto‐West‐Nordic’, the phonological characterization of which is based on evidence from ...
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Chapter 1 describes the demography of the two languages and their historical relation, tracing them back to ‘Proto‐West‐Nordic’, the phonological characterization of which is based on evidence from Old Icelandic texts and partly on reconstruction. The West Nordic obstruents are often assumed to have had an opposition based on voicing, different from the modern languages. The West Nordic vowel system was rich in having nine vowel qualities, which in principle could take part in a length correlation and a relation of nasality. Old West Nordic had a number of diphthongs, as combinations of full vowel colours and semi‐vowels. The prosodic structure was of the type characterized as ‘moraic trochee’.Less
Chapter 1 describes the demography of the two languages and their historical relation, tracing them back to ‘Proto‐West‐Nordic’, the phonological characterization of which is based on evidence from Old Icelandic texts and partly on reconstruction. The West Nordic obstruents are often assumed to have had an opposition based on voicing, different from the modern languages. The West Nordic vowel system was rich in having nine vowel qualities, which in principle could take part in a length correlation and a relation of nasality. Old West Nordic had a number of diphthongs, as combinations of full vowel colours and semi‐vowels. The prosodic structure was of the type characterized as ‘moraic trochee’.
Kristján Árnason
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199229314
- eISBN:
- 9780191728464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199229314.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
The chapter starts with an overview of places and manners of articulation. Among the special problems discussed is the relation between palatals and velars. Alternation between velars and palatals is ...
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The chapter starts with an overview of places and manners of articulation. Among the special problems discussed is the relation between palatals and velars. Alternation between velars and palatals is common in paradigms, raising the question of the phonological function of the distinction. The chapter also discusses the relation between fortis (aspirated) and lenis (unaspirated) stops in foot initial and foot internal position, and the distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dialects defined on the basis of the function of aspiration in foot internal position. The relation between voiced and voiceless fricatives and sonorants is another interesting area; there being a tendency for voiced fricatives to be weakened and become approximants. The ubiquity of voiceless sonorants is another special characteristic of the phonological structure. The chapter ends with an enumeration of the classes of consonants and a proposed elemental analysis.Less
The chapter starts with an overview of places and manners of articulation. Among the special problems discussed is the relation between palatals and velars. Alternation between velars and palatals is common in paradigms, raising the question of the phonological function of the distinction. The chapter also discusses the relation between fortis (aspirated) and lenis (unaspirated) stops in foot initial and foot internal position, and the distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dialects defined on the basis of the function of aspiration in foot internal position. The relation between voiced and voiceless fricatives and sonorants is another interesting area; there being a tendency for voiced fricatives to be weakened and become approximants. The ubiquity of voiceless sonorants is another special characteristic of the phonological structure. The chapter ends with an enumeration of the classes of consonants and a proposed elemental analysis.
Kristján Árnason
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199229314
- eISBN:
- 9780191728464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199229314.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
This chapter describes the Faroese consonant system, giving an overview, and discussing parallel problems to those in Icelandic, such things as the relation between the fortis and lenis consonant ...
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This chapter describes the Faroese consonant system, giving an overview, and discussing parallel problems to those in Icelandic, such things as the relation between the fortis and lenis consonant series, both initially and word internally. There are similarities in that both Icelandic and Faroese have ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dialects, and the number of oppositions allowed differs between positions, initially or internally in feet and words. Palatalization has reached its ‘logical’ conclusion in Faroese, creating palato‐alveolar affricates. Fricatives and glides also raise issues regarding positional restrictions on opposition, historical fricatives having been deleted, but new glides inserted in hiatus. The sonorant system shows similarities and differences vis à vis the Icelandic one. The chapter ends with a proposed elemental analysis of the Faroese consonant system.Less
This chapter describes the Faroese consonant system, giving an overview, and discussing parallel problems to those in Icelandic, such things as the relation between the fortis and lenis consonant series, both initially and word internally. There are similarities in that both Icelandic and Faroese have ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ dialects, and the number of oppositions allowed differs between positions, initially or internally in feet and words. Palatalization has reached its ‘logical’ conclusion in Faroese, creating palato‐alveolar affricates. Fricatives and glides also raise issues regarding positional restrictions on opposition, historical fricatives having been deleted, but new glides inserted in hiatus. The sonorant system shows similarities and differences vis à vis the Icelandic one. The chapter ends with a proposed elemental analysis of the Faroese consonant system.
Michel Chion
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226656397
- eISBN:
- 9780226656427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226656427.003.0013
- Subject:
- Music, Performing Practice/Studies
This paper, through some examples from films, shows how cinema can dramatize vision of the word as written into the image on screen, if fleetingly at times—a word that is not pronounced but to which ...
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This paper, through some examples from films, shows how cinema can dramatize vision of the word as written into the image on screen, if fleetingly at times—a word that is not pronounced but to which the spectator must “give voice” in reading it mentally. The paper also shows how cinema should deal with the question of difference as posed by languages and certain differences in writing systems; how cinema tends to reinforce the old myth about the gendered character of the opposition between consonants (associated with the masculine) and vowels (associated with the feminine); and finally how cinema gives an account of the change in the use and status of writing, thanks to current-day media, as used in some “SMS.” The general idea is to remind us that language, in its visible and/or audible form, plays a key role in the audio-visual, which should be called “audio-logo-visual,” and to analyze how it does so in its cultural and historical reality.Less
This paper, through some examples from films, shows how cinema can dramatize vision of the word as written into the image on screen, if fleetingly at times—a word that is not pronounced but to which the spectator must “give voice” in reading it mentally. The paper also shows how cinema should deal with the question of difference as posed by languages and certain differences in writing systems; how cinema tends to reinforce the old myth about the gendered character of the opposition between consonants (associated with the masculine) and vowels (associated with the feminine); and finally how cinema gives an account of the change in the use and status of writing, thanks to current-day media, as used in some “SMS.” The general idea is to remind us that language, in its visible and/or audible form, plays a key role in the audio-visual, which should be called “audio-logo-visual,” and to analyze how it does so in its cultural and historical reality.
Max W. Wheeler
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199589982
- eISBN:
- 9780191728884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589982.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Historical Linguistics
Catalan verb morphology displays a curious and complex morphome that is not morpho‐syntactically motivated. The set of categories represented consists of (a) and (b): (a) 1st singular present ...
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Catalan verb morphology displays a curious and complex morphome that is not morpho‐syntactically motivated. The set of categories represented consists of (a) and (b): (a) 1st singular present indicative, present subjunctive; (b) Past perfective indicative (synthetic), past subjunctive, past participle. The morphome is generally marked by a velar consonant: /k/ after a sibilant, /g/ elsewhere. I explore the spread in individual verbs of the velar marker from submorphome (a) to sub‐morphome (b) or from (b) to (a), and from the original verbs to others, in a corpus of inflections from 1200–1550. I attempt to identify morphological, phonological, and possibly semantic, motivations for the observed spread of the morphome from 22% of e‐conjugation verb roots showing any stem alternation in 1300 to 78% in the present day.Less
Catalan verb morphology displays a curious and complex morphome that is not morpho‐syntactically motivated. The set of categories represented consists of (a) and (b): (a) 1st singular present indicative, present subjunctive; (b) Past perfective indicative (synthetic), past subjunctive, past participle. The morphome is generally marked by a velar consonant: /k/ after a sibilant, /g/ elsewhere. I explore the spread in individual verbs of the velar marker from submorphome (a) to sub‐morphome (b) or from (b) to (a), and from the original verbs to others, in a corpus of inflections from 1200–1550. I attempt to identify morphological, phonological, and possibly semantic, motivations for the observed spread of the morphome from 22% of e‐conjugation verb roots showing any stem alternation in 1300 to 78% in the present day.
Jane Stuart‐Smith and Mario Cortina‐Borja
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199609925
- eISBN:
- 9780191741579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199609925.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
Despite the interesting position of Panjabi as one of the few Modern Indo-Aryan languages to show lexical tone, there has been little phonetic investigation into the phenomenon, or consideration of ...
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Despite the interesting position of Panjabi as one of the few Modern Indo-Aryan languages to show lexical tone, there has been little phonetic investigation into the phenomenon, or consideration of the synchronic phonological contrasts resulting from mergers of the PIE voiced aspirates with voiceless or voiced plosives, with tonal developments on adjacent vowels. At the same time, lexical tone in British varieties of Panjabi is informally reported to be undergoing further change and even loss. This chapter presents an acoustic phonetic study of lexical tone and stop contrasts in British Panjabi. Our results confirm the presence of tone in terms of pitch movement as expected, and suggest some attrition. They also indicate some fine differences in plosives which phonologically are assumed to be ‘the same’. This suggests that we may need to re-evaluate this Indo-European sound law as an instance of ‘the new principle of ‘near merger’’ (Labov 1994: 20).Less
Despite the interesting position of Panjabi as one of the few Modern Indo-Aryan languages to show lexical tone, there has been little phonetic investigation into the phenomenon, or consideration of the synchronic phonological contrasts resulting from mergers of the PIE voiced aspirates with voiceless or voiced plosives, with tonal developments on adjacent vowels. At the same time, lexical tone in British varieties of Panjabi is informally reported to be undergoing further change and even loss. This chapter presents an acoustic phonetic study of lexical tone and stop contrasts in British Panjabi. Our results confirm the presence of tone in terms of pitch movement as expected, and suggest some attrition. They also indicate some fine differences in plosives which phonologically are assumed to be ‘the same’. This suggests that we may need to re-evaluate this Indo-European sound law as an instance of ‘the new principle of ‘near merger’’ (Labov 1994: 20).
Tomas Riad
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199543571
- eISBN:
- 9780191747168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199543571.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
There are eighteen consonant phonemes in Swedish. Sixteen of these occur in both a short and a long variant, and that distinction is phonemic. This is to say that consonants may be lexically ...
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There are eighteen consonant phonemes in Swedish. Sixteen of these occur in both a short and a long variant, and that distinction is phonemic. This is to say that consonants may be lexically specified with a mora. Among the most interesting properties of the consonant system is the double specification of aspiration and voicing in the obstruents, an instance of overspecification. Swedish also has crowd of palatal and velar voiceless fricatives: /s/, /ʂ/ and /ɕ/. The phoneme /ʂ/ exhibits a lot of allophonic variation, where the typical prevocalic realization is [ɧ] and the postvocalic is [ʂ].Less
There are eighteen consonant phonemes in Swedish. Sixteen of these occur in both a short and a long variant, and that distinction is phonemic. This is to say that consonants may be lexically specified with a mora. Among the most interesting properties of the consonant system is the double specification of aspiration and voicing in the obstruents, an instance of overspecification. Swedish also has crowd of palatal and velar voiceless fricatives: /s/, /ʂ/ and /ɕ/. The phoneme /ʂ/ exhibits a lot of allophonic variation, where the typical prevocalic realization is [ɧ] and the postvocalic is [ʂ].
Robert McColl Millar
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623167
- eISBN:
- 9780748651528
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623167.003.0015
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
This chapter discusses the phonological variation in the area covering the vowel systems, consonant phonology and prosody. It shows that the Scots dialects of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles ...
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This chapter discusses the phonological variation in the area covering the vowel systems, consonant phonology and prosody. It shows that the Scots dialects of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles exhibit considerable variation in pronunciation both between themselves and in relation to the patterns found for Central Scots. Yet this distinctiveness masks an underlying similarity: these dialects represent more conservative patterns which are associated with a greater range of words than would be the case in less traditional dialects.Less
This chapter discusses the phonological variation in the area covering the vowel systems, consonant phonology and prosody. It shows that the Scots dialects of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles exhibit considerable variation in pronunciation both between themselves and in relation to the patterns found for Central Scots. Yet this distinctiveness masks an underlying similarity: these dialects represent more conservative patterns which are associated with a greater range of words than would be the case in less traditional dialects.