Features in Phonology and Phonetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Features in Phonology and Phonetics write by Annie Rialland. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Features in Phonology and Phonetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book intends to place Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagues collected in this book.
Distinctive Feature Theory
Distinctive Feature Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distinctive Feature Theory write by T. Alan Hall. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Distinctive Feature Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, Portuguese, Tahltan, Terena, Tswana, Tuvan, and Zoque. The subjects dealt with in the book include feature geometry, underspecification (in rule-based and in Opti-mality Theoretic treatments) and the phonetic implementation of phonological features. Other topics include laryngeal features (e.g. [voice], [spread glottis], [nasal]), and place features for consonants and vowels. The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on feature theory and/or the phonetics-phonology interface.
Evolutionary Phonology
Evolutionary Phonology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary Phonology write by Juliette Blevins. This book was released on 2004-07-22. Evolutionary Phonology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.
Where Do Phonological Features Come From?
Where Do Phonological Features Come From? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Do Phonological Features Come From? write by George N. Clements. This book was released on 2011. Where Do Phonological Features Come From? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.
The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages
The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages write by Heriberto Avelino. This book was released on 2016-05-09. The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents unique insights into laryngeal features, one of the most intriguing topics of contemporary phonetics and phonology. It investigates in detail properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms (as in ejectives or implosives), stress, and prosody. What makes American indigenous languages special is that many of these properties co-exist in the phonologies of languages spoken on the continent. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, the contributions span a range of American languages, illustrating how the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features provides insight into how potential articulatory and aero-acoustic conflicts are resolved, which contrastive laryngeal features can co-occur in a given language, which features pattern together in phonological processes and how they evolve over time. This contribution provides the most recent research on laryngeal features with an array of studies to expand and enrich the fascinating field of phonetics and phonology of the languages of the Americas.
