Diachronic phonology

Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo

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“…They discuss an explanation whereby phonetic implementation is conditioned by morphological boundaries, which may also result in an indirect sideeffect of duration in some contexts. It is worth noting that this explanation violates the principle of morphology-free phonetics (Bermúdez-Otero, 2007, the long-standing fundamental assumption of generative linguistics that there is no interface between morphology and phonetics (Kiparsky, 1982;Myers, 2000;see Pierrehumbert, 2002 for an overview of the assumptions of the modular feedforward architecture). In addition, it is not clear whether just three phonological contexts are comprehensive enough to make broad judgements of categoricity and gradience.…”

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Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English

Turton

2017

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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This paper presents an empirical analysis of /l/-darkening in English, using ultrasound tongue imaging data from five varieties spoken in the UK. The analysis of near 500 tokens from five participants provides hitherto absent instrumental evidence demonstrating that speakers may display both categorical allophony of light and dark variants, and gradient phonetic effects coexisting in the same grammar. Results are interpreted through the modular architecture of the life cycle of phonological processes, whereby a phonological rule starts its life as a phonetically driven gradient process, over time stabilizing into a phonological process at the phrase level, and advancing through the grammar. Not only does the life cycle make predictions about application at different levels of the grammar, it also predicts that stabilized phonological rules do not replace the phonetic processes from which they emerge, but typically coexist with them, a pattern which is supported in the data. Overall, this paper demonstrates that variation in English /l/ realization has been underestimated in the existing literature, and that we can observe phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic conditioning when accounting for a representative range of phonological environments across varieties.

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confidence: 91%

Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English

Turton

2017

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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“…25 For a concise statement of a framework which explicitly deals with these life-cycles, cf. Bermúdez-Otero (2007).…”

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Vowel reduction in Russian: No phonetics in phonology

Iosad¹

2012

J. Ling.

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Much recent work in phonology concentrates on the role of sonority in the phenomenon of vowel reduction, capitalizing on two facts: that reduction involves raising and/or shortening and that higher vowels and schwa are normally interpreted as having low sonority. This paper presents a different approach to vowel reduction in Standard Russian. It is proposed that the apparent sonority-driven effects in Russian are epiphenomenal. In particular, reduction to schwa is outside the domain of phonological computation in Russian, being an artifact of reduced duration. Other types of neutralization arising in vowel reduction are potentially amenable to a sonority-based analysis, but I argue that current approaches to sonority-driven reduction suffer from representational shortcomings. When these shortcomings are rectified, however, sonority is unnecessary as an explicit factor in vowel reduction: standard markedness mechanisms suffice to explain the data.

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“…Conversely, the grandfather effect had Consonant Harmony applying to deaffricated ‘chicken’ words but blocked it from applying to ‘tiger’ words. Optimality Theory has had to incorporate a number of controversial alternative amendments to deal with these and other opaque generalizations, including, for example, Comparative Markedness (McCarthy, 2002), Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (McCarthy, 2007), and Stratal Optimality Theory (Bermúdez-Otero, 2007). For a review of some of these proposals as they relate specifically to acquisition, see Dinnsen (2008b) and Tihonova (2009).…”

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“…Research in historical linguistics might offer some insight on this issue given the observation that diachronic sound changes generally involve grammar simplification in some domain, even if the grammar were to become more complex in some other domain (e.g. Bermúdez-Otero, 2007; Sapir, 1921). In one sense, then, historical sound change can be seen as working in the reverse of acquisition.…”

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“…If, as is generally assumed, children’s grammars start from a simple unmarked state and become more marked as they approach the target system (e.g. Bermúdez-Otero, 2007; Smolensky, 1996), it might not be surprising that feeding interactions would have been placed at the unmarked end of the proposed developmental trajectory. It is also not surprising that the children’s feeding interactions between Deaffrication and Consonant Harmony might have changed to a counterfeeding interaction or a grandfather effect, with Consonant Harmony becoming more restricted in its utilization in either case.…”

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On the interaction of deaffrication and consonant harmony

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Error patterns in children's phonological development are often described as simplifying processes that can interact with one another with different consequences. Some interactions limit the applicability of an error pattern, and others extend it to more words. Theories predict that error patterns interact to their full potential. While specific interactions have been documented for certain pairs of processes, no developmental study has shown that the range of typologically predicted interactions occurs for those processes. To determine whether this anomaly is an accidental gap or a systematic peculiarity of particular error patterns, two commonly occurring processes were considered, namely Deaffrication and Consonant Harmony. Results are reported from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of 12 children (age 3;0 -5;0) with functional phonological delays. Three interaction types were attested to varying degrees. The longitudinal results further instantiated the typology and revealed a characteristic trajectory of change. Implications of these findings are explored.

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Diachronic phonology

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Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English

Categorical or gradient? An ultrasound investigation of /l/-darkening and vocalization in varieties of English

Vowel reduction in Russian: No phonetics in phonology

On the interaction of deaffrication and consonant harmony

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