Experimental Approaches in Theoretical Phonology

Kawahara, Shigeto

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“…This study is inspired and motivated by an increasing interest in testing the quality of linguistic data using experimental methodology (Berko 1958;Cowart 1997;Dabrowska 2010;Hayes & Londe 2006;Kawahara 2011;Myers 2009;Nolan 1992;Schütze 1996, among others). Here I briefly summarize why experimentation is necessary beyond intuition-based data collection (see the work cited and references cited therein for more general and elaborate discussion of the following points).…”

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Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Kawahara

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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In Japanese loanword phonology, geminates optionally devoice when there is another voiced obstruent within the same stem, i.e., geminates may optionally devoice when they violate OCP(voice). This devoicing of OCP-violating geminates has received much attention in the recent phonological literature. However, the debates centering around this phenomenon have relied primarily on intuition-based data, and no systematic wellformedness judgment experiments have been performed. This paper fills that gap. The experiment reported in this paper shows that Japanese speakers do find devoicing of geminates natural when there is another voiced stop within the same word, i.e., when the geminates violate OCP(voice). The experiment moreover finds other interesting aspects of devoicing: (i) the naturalness of devoicing of OCP-violating geminates correlates positively with the lexical frequencies of the words in question, (ii) the naturalness of devoicing of OCP-violating geminates is not significantly affected by place of articulation, (iii) speakers find (context-free) devoicing of geminates more natural than devoicing of OCP-violating singletons, and (iv) speakers find the devoicing of OCP-violating singletons more natural in word-medial position than in word-initial position.

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Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Kawahara

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…In reaction, there has been a movement among some linguists to collect intuitions in a more controlled manner from a larger number of subjects. (See, e.g., Cowart () and Myers () on ‘experimental syntax’ and Kawahara () on formally gathered phonological intuitions.) This is but one part of a larger trend in recent decades towards a greater use of more formal experimental methods by linguists themselves, as the cultural distance that has sometimes separated, for example, generative linguists and psycholinguists decreases…”

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Linguistic Intuitions

Maynes¹,

Groß

2013

Philosophy Compass

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Linguists often advert to what are sometimes called linguistic intuitions. These intuitions and the uses to which they are put give rise to a variety of philosophically interesting questions: What are linguistic intuitionsfor example, what kind of attitude or mental state is involved? Why do they have evidential force and how might this force be underwritten by their causal etiology? What light might their causal etiology shed on questions of cognitive architecturefor example, as a case study of how consciously inaccessible subpersonal processes give rise to conscious states, or as a candidate example of cognitive penetrability? What methodological issues arise concerning how linguistic intuitions are gathered and interpretedfor example, might some subjects' intuitions be more reliable than others? And what bearing might all this have on philosophers' own appeals to intuitions? This paper surveys and critically discusses leading answers to these questions. In particular, we defend a 'mentalist' conception of linguistics and the role of linguistic intuitions therein.Linguistic Intuitions 715

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“…It is not uncommon to find analyses in the generative literature based on impressionistic and/or introspective data or on phonetic or dictionary transcriptions. The contemporary research approach known as laboratory phonology (LabPhon) emphasizes the use of experimental methodologies to reevaluate phonological descriptions of impressionistic and introspective data and to question the psychological reality of generalizations made on the basis of such data (Bradley , Cohn , Kawahara ). Achieving descriptive adequacy is an important goal for any linguistic framework, including OT.…”

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Optimality Theory and Spanish Phonology

Bradley

2014

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This article surveys research in Spanish phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a formal linguistic framework based on ranked and violable constraints. Theoretical insights from OT enrich our understanding of Spanish phonology, and Spanish data also figure prominently in the latest theoretical developments within OT. The article concludes with areas for ongoing research and suggestions for further reading on OT in Spanish phonology.

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Experimental Approaches in Theoretical Phonology

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Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: a rating study

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