Language Universals Markedness Theory And Natural Phonetic Processes
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Author | : Robert K. Herbert |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110865939 |
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author | : Robert K. Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Consonants |
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Author | : Robert K. Herbert |
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Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Robert Kevin Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Consonants |
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Author | : Hadumod Bussmann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1336 |
Release | : 2006-02-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134630387 |
The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.
Author | : Robert Kevin Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Edwin L. Battistella |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1990-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0791495965 |
Battistella traces the development of markedness theory as a central part of structuralist theories of language. He outlines the concepts of marked and unmarked from Prague School structuralism to present day applications in linguistic theory and cultural analysis, using the reference point of English grammar and sound structure. The author focuses on the fundamental asymmetry between terms of linguistic relationships, in which one term is more broadly defined and hence dominant (the unmarked term) while the other is more narrowly defined (the marked term). In addition to examining language-particular markedness relations evident in the structure and history of English, Battistella raises questions concerning universal asymmetries as well. He discusses the status of markedness as a unifying concept of linguistic structure and as a principle of language change.
Author | : John Laver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1994-05-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521456555 |
Comprehensive textbook on phonetics, with examples from over 500 languages.
Author | : Jeff Good |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2008-01-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191538329 |
This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins. The volume brings together specially commissioned work by leading scholars, including prominent representatives of generative and functional linguistics. It examines rival explanations for linguistic universals and assesses the effectiveness of competing models of language change. The authors investigate patterns and processes of grammatical and lexical change across a wide range of languages; they consider the degree to which common characteristics condition processes of change in related languages; and examine how far differences in linguistic outcomes may be explained by cultural or external factors. This book will interest the wide range of scholars in linguistics and related fields concerned with language change, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and universals, and the nature of the human language faculty
Author | : Paula Orzechowska |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9811372993 |
This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived. A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation. This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.