Building on old foundations : From phonemic theory to C/V-segregation
| Autor: | Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Carvalho, Joaquim Brandão de, Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Lumières (UPL) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Sound change
linearity Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Language and Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Assimilation (phonology) phonemic theory Contradiction [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common Mathematics 060201 languages & linguistics Locality Phonology 06 humanities and the arts Phonological theory 16. Peace & justice [SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics Linguistics phonology 0602 languages and literature C/V-segregation 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Folia Linguistica Folia linguistica Folia Linguistica, De Gruyter, 2005, 39, pp.363-384 |
| ISSN: | 0165-4004 1614-7308 |
| Popis: | This paper aims at showing that the scope of structural phonemics transcends the limits of the 'foundations of phonology', contrary to what is tacitly assumed and appears from some textbooks. It will be argued that the classical concept phoneme, defined as a set of distinctive features, presents both obsolete and still relevant properties. One of these properties, linearity, should clearly be abandoned, as follows from acoustic-perceptual evidence as well as from some types of sound change. Thereby, the phoneme in its purest sense can be said to have been superseded by one major trend characterizing post-SPE phonological theory: multilinearity. However, a phoneme-based property of distinctive features, their locality, is still valid, and is empirically supported by cross-linguistic variation. Now, locality and non-linearity are apparently contradictory. It will be shown that this contradiction cannot be resolved, and that both feature properties cannot be captured, unless consonants and vowels are assumed to be universally segregated within phonological representations. This issue leads to several predictions on C/C and V/V interactions, converges with independent processual evidence like vowel-to-vowel assimilation, and addresses the question of the relationship between phonology and morphology. |
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