Ken Lodge
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625659
- eISBN:
- 9780748671410
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625659.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
An investigation of the criteria needed to determine sameness and difference in the classification of items of phonological relevance. Reliance on phonetic substance and meaningful contrast as the ...
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An investigation of the criteria needed to determine sameness and difference in the classification of items of phonological relevance. Reliance on phonetic substance and meaningful contrast as the criteria for phonological analysis is insufficient; an appeal to the function of the items to be classified is also necessary in many cases. A declarative account of phonology is proposed which is nonsegmental and polysystemic; derivation is excluded from the grammar. What counts as the same phonological item is investigated in a number of phenomena in different languages. Separate chapters are devoted to the issues of biuniqueness and monosystemicity, segmentation, and phonetic implementation and abstractness; a final chapter deals with panlectal grammars.Less
An investigation of the criteria needed to determine sameness and difference in the classification of items of phonological relevance. Reliance on phonetic substance and meaningful contrast as the criteria for phonological analysis is insufficient; an appeal to the function of the items to be classified is also necessary in many cases. A declarative account of phonology is proposed which is nonsegmental and polysystemic; derivation is excluded from the grammar. What counts as the same phonological item is investigated in a number of phenomena in different languages. Separate chapters are devoted to the issues of biuniqueness and monosystemicity, segmentation, and phonetic implementation and abstractness; a final chapter deals with panlectal grammars.
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/9780199229314.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language Families
This chapter provides an in‐depth discussion of the systemic relations in the vowel systems of the two languages, starting with a description of the trend in Icelandic toward diasystemic structure. ...
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This chapter provides an in‐depth discussion of the systemic relations in the vowel systems of the two languages, starting with a description of the trend in Icelandic toward diasystemic structure. The ‘new’ diphthongs which have developed in long mid vowels and monophthongal variants of short diphthongs emphasize the difference between the open and closed syllable systems. A context free merger in the ‘long’ system in some varieties of Icelandic contributes to the drifting apart of the long and the short systems. The Faroese vowel system is even more clearly polysystemic than the Icelandic one, since the number of oppositions allowed in closed syllables is consistently smaller than those allowed in open syllables. In the restricted syllables, the options are limited to three vowel colours at the most. The chapter ends with a discussion of the concept of phonological prominence and an element analysis of reduction is proposed.Less
This chapter provides an in‐depth discussion of the systemic relations in the vowel systems of the two languages, starting with a description of the trend in Icelandic toward diasystemic structure. The ‘new’ diphthongs which have developed in long mid vowels and monophthongal variants of short diphthongs emphasize the difference between the open and closed syllable systems. A context free merger in the ‘long’ system in some varieties of Icelandic contributes to the drifting apart of the long and the short systems. The Faroese vowel system is even more clearly polysystemic than the Icelandic one, since the number of oppositions allowed in closed syllables is consistently smaller than those allowed in open syllables. In the restricted syllables, the options are limited to three vowel colours at the most. The chapter ends with a discussion of the concept of phonological prominence and an element analysis of reduction is proposed.
John M. Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199608331
- eISBN:
- 9780191732119
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608331.003.0005
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Phonetics / Phonology
Various analogies involving properties that have a scope that is extrasegmental (in phonology) or clausal (in syntax) are presented. Vowel harmony has an analogy in sequence of tenses, as does umlaut ...
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Various analogies involving properties that have a scope that is extrasegmental (in phonology) or clausal (in syntax) are presented. Vowel harmony has an analogy in sequence of tenses, as does umlaut in agreement. Phonological segments and features that do not undergo the normal rules of placement are analogous to words and syntactic features, respectively, that do not show the usual properties of word order and manifestation in word structure. Underspecification and polysystemicity, and contrast, familiar from phonology, are illustrated for syntactic features in relation to different systems of aspect. Historical grammaticalization, unsurprisingly also found in both planes, is illustrated. These and other illustrations involve more and less detailed analyses of phenomena from a range of languages.Less
Various analogies involving properties that have a scope that is extrasegmental (in phonology) or clausal (in syntax) are presented. Vowel harmony has an analogy in sequence of tenses, as does umlaut in agreement. Phonological segments and features that do not undergo the normal rules of placement are analogous to words and syntactic features, respectively, that do not show the usual properties of word order and manifestation in word structure. Underspecification and polysystemicity, and contrast, familiar from phonology, are illustrated for syntactic features in relation to different systems of aspect. Historical grammaticalization, unsurprisingly also found in both planes, is illustrated. These and other illustrations involve more and less detailed analyses of phenomena from a range of languages.
Ken Lodge
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625659
- eISBN:
- 9780748671410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625659.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
The assumptions of biuniqueness and monosystemicity in phonological systems are challenged. Both assumptions obscure differences of function within a system and complicates analysis. Morphophonemic ...
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The assumptions of biuniqueness and monosystemicity in phonological systems are challenged. Both assumptions obscure differences of function within a system and complicates analysis. Morphophonemic alternations and unique underliers are discussed in relation to monosystemicity. The tension between polysystemicity and generalizations is also discussed.Less
The assumptions of biuniqueness and monosystemicity in phonological systems are challenged. Both assumptions obscure differences of function within a system and complicates analysis. Morphophonemic alternations and unique underliers are discussed in relation to monosystemicity. The tension between polysystemicity and generalizations is also discussed.
