Language Sound And Structure

Author : Mark Aronoff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262511742
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Language Sound and Structure written by Mark Aronoff and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eighteen original essays pay tribute to Morris Halle, Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Halle's impact on the study of language has been enormous; he and his students represent a continuous and coherent tradition which is unique in modern linguistics. Although they range from poetry to phonetics, the contributions share the common method of formal phonological analysis which reflects Halle's own work. With the exception of Roman Jakobson, his teacher, all of the contributors are Morris Halle's PhD students.Contributors include Roman Jakobson, Samuel J. Keyser, Paul Kiparsky, Sanford A. Schane, Arnold M. Zwicky, James W. Harris, Stephen R. Anderson, Elisabeth Selkirk, William R. Leben, Shosuke Haraguchi, Mark Liberman, Janet Pierrehumbert, Alan S. Prince, John Goldsmith, Jill Carrier Duncan, Joan Mascaro, John J. McCarthy, Bruce Hayes, Rochelle Lieber, and Moira Yip.

Author : Rebecca L. Morley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3985540756
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound structure and sound change written by Rebecca L. Morley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, the assumption of modularity can also be an obstacle to understanding language at a deeper level. This book examines the consequences of enforcing non-modularity along two dimensions: the temporal, and the cognitive. Along the temporal dimension, synchronic and diachronic domains are linked by the requirement that sound changes must lead to viable, stable language states. Along the cognitive dimension, sound change and variation are linked to speech perception and production by requiring non-trivial transformations between acoustic and articulatory representations. The methodological focus of this work is on computational modeling. By formalising and implementing theoretical accounts, modeling can expose theoretical gaps and covert assumptions. To do so, it is necessary to formally assess the functional equivalence of specific implementational choices, as well as their mapping to theoretical structures. This book applies this analytic approach to a series of implemented models of sound change. As theoretical inconsistencies are discovered, possible solutions are proposed, incrementally constructing a set of sufficient properties for a working model. Because internal theoretical consistency is enforced, this model corresponds to an explanatorily adequate theory. And because explicit links between modules are required, this is a theory, not only of sound change, but of many aspects of phonological competence. The book highlights two aspects of modeling work that receive relatively little attention: the formal mapping from model to theory, and the scalability of demonstration models. Focusing on these aspects of modeling makes it clear that any theory of sound change in the specific is impossible without a more general theory of language: of the relationship between perception and production, the relationship between phonetics and phonology, the learning of linguistic units, and the nature of underlying representations. Theories of sound change that do not explicitly address these aspects of language are making tacit, untested assumptions about their properties. Addressing so many aspects of language may seem to complicate the linguist's task. However, as this book shows, it actually helps impose boundary conditions of ecological validity that reduce the theoretical search space.

Author : Jørgen Rischel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199544344
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Structure in Language written by Jørgen Rischel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Jørgen Rischel's most important work on linguistic sound structure, its relation to other aspects of language, and its variation across the world's languages. This includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of the last four decades.

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631182610
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Sound Structure written by John Harris and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a university level text for intermediate and advanced courses, this volume will be of value to anyone interested in recent theoretical developments in the field of formal English.

Author : Mark Aronoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262010740
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Language Sound Structure written by Mark Aronoff and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elisabeth O. Selkirk
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262690980
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phonology and Syntax written by Elisabeth O. Selkirk and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamentally new approach to the theory of phonology and its relation to syntax is developed in this book, which is the first to address the question of the relation between syntax and phonology in a systematic way.This general theory differs from its predecessors in the generative tradition in several respects. By arguing that the intonational structure of a sentence determines certain aspects of its stress pattern or rhythmic structure, and not vice versa, it provides a novel view of the intonation-stress relation. It also offers a new theory of the focus-prosody relation that solves a variety of classic puzzles and involves an appeal to the place of a focused constituent in the predicate-argument structure of the sentence. The book also includes other novel features, among them a development of the metrical grid theory of stress (including a complete treatment of English word stress in this framework), the representation of juncture in terms of "silent" positions in the metrical grid (with a treatment of sandhi in terms of this rhythmic juncture), and a "rhythmic" nonsyntactic approach to the basic phonology of function words in EnglishElisabeth 0. Selkirk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This book is tenth in the series, Current Studies in Linguistics.

Author : Magdalena Wrembel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000712087
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech written by Magdalena Wrembel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech. // The book features concise contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars who have worked with Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk across a range of disciplinary fields toward broadening the scope of how sound structure and speech are studied and how phonological and phonetic research is conducted. Contributions bridge the gap between such fields as phonological theory, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, and morphology, but also includes perspectives from such areas as historical linguistics, which demonstrate the relevance of other linguistic areas of inquiry to empirical investigations in sound structure and speech. The volume also showcases the rich variety of methodologies employed in existing research, including corpus-based, diachronic, experimental, acoustic and online approaches and showcases them at work, drawing from data from languages beyond the Anglocentric focus in existing research. // The collection reflects on Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk’s pioneering contributions to widening the study of sound structure and speech and reinforces the value of interdisciplinary perspectives in taking the field further, making this key reading for students and scholars in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and speech and language processing.

Author : Mark Aronoff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262010740
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Sound Structure written by Mark Aronoff and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eighteen original essays pay tribute to Morris Halle, Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Halle's impact on the study of language has been enormous; he and his students represent a continuous and coherent tradition which is unique in modern linguistics. Although they range from poetry to phonetics, the contributions share the common method of formal phonological analysis which reflects Halle's own work. With the exception of Roman Jakobson, his teacher, all of the contributors are Morris Halle's Ph.D. students. Contributors include Roman Jakobson, Samuel J. Keyser, Paul Kiparsky, Sanford A. Schane, Arnold M. Zwicky, James W. Harris, Stephen R. Anderson, Elisabeth Selkirk, William R. Leben, Shosuke Haraguchi, Mark Liberman, Janet Pierrehumbert, Alan S. Prince, John Goldsmith, Jill Carrier Duncan, Joan Mascaro, John J. McCarthy, Bruce Hayes, Rochelle Lieber, and Moira Yip.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262530972
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Download or read book The Sound Pattern of English written by Noam Chomsky and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language. The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle are Institute Professors of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

Author : Elisabeth O. Selkirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Phonology and Syntax written by Elisabeth O. Selkirk and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: