From Binary Features to Elements: The Case of Scandinavian
| Autor: | Laurence Voeltzel, Ali Tifrit |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Nantes - UFR Lettres et Langages (UFRLL), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Unary operation
Government phonology North Germanic languages Contrastivist Hypothesis Phenomenology (philosophy) Government Phonology 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Naturalness Element Theory ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Mathematics 060201 languages & linguistics Hierarchy lcsh:P101-410 Phonology 06 humanities and the arts [SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics Linguistics lcsh:Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar phonology North-Germanic 0602 languages and literature Syllabic verse 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Nordlyd; Vol 41, No 1 (2014): Special Issue on Features; 59-83 Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 41, Iss 1 (2015) Nordlyd Nordlyd, Septentrio Academic Publishing, 2014, Special Issue on Features, 41 (1), http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/3254 Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 41, Iss 1, Pp 59-83 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1503-8599 0332-7531 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we show how the Contrastivist Hypothesis (Hall 2007, Dresher 2008) can be amended using Element Theory (KLV 1988; Angoujard 1997; Scheer 1999; Backley 2011) and Government Phonology (KLV 1990; Lowenstamm 1996; Scheer 2004). Given the richness of the phenomenology of Nordic languages, this family constitutes our testing ground. While one might expect five different hierarchies, given that Scandinavian languages are distinct languages, what we actually find is one unique hierarchy where the same features are used in the same order. However, if we want a full understanding of the Nordic phenomenology and if we maintain the hierarchy exactly as it is, two difficulties appear: the first one involves motivation, the second one naturalness. In order to overcome the two kinds of difficulties mentioned above, we aim to develop a representation of the obstruent inventory based on unary primes using Element Theory and Government Phonology. The results we get from this hierarchy cannot be considered independently from the syllabic structure. Therefore, we propose a rereading of the phenomenology of Nordic that connects the new elementary representations that we posit to the syllabic constraints. As a consequence, we explore new hypotheses concerning the phonological activity in Scandinavian languages. |
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