How to marry (structuralist) contrast and (generative) processing

Scheer, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.05.001

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“…Il est important de signaler que pour cette analyse, le schwa n'est que de surface : lorsque le /u/ sous (15b) est atone, il s'agit toujours d'un u dans la représentation phonologique, puisque son identité mélodique n'a pas été modifiée par la computation phonologique. Il acquiert son identité de voyelle pleine ou de voyelle réduite (schwa) uniquement durant l'interprétation phonétique de la structure phonologique (Gussmann 2007, Scheer 2010, Cyran 2012 À présent, nous avons tous les éléments nécessaires pour exposer les données et analyser le processus d'alternance des voyelles moyennes où il faudra néanmoins introduire la Théorie des éléments proposée par Backley (2011).…”

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“…L'idée que seuls les éléments tête peuvent être partagés repose sur l'asymétrie proposée par Backley (2011) concernant les segments labiaux et vélaires où U peut être tête ou non. Cette perspective est bien connue en phonologie du gouvernement en tant que Licensing Contraints (contraintes de licenciement); voir Charette et Göksel 1994, 1996Kaye 2001;Scheer 2010). Il faut tout de même préciser que les contraintes de licenciement ont été développées pour expliquer les restrictions des propriétés combinatoires entre éléments.…”

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“…5 Les versions précédentes de la TE comportent certains éléments qui sont différents et, par conséquent, l'utilisation d'une autre version que celle de Backley (2011) forcerait à revoir les contraintes de licenciement. En effet, si on regarde la version de Harris et Lindsey (1995 : 70), par rapport aux autres versions de TEassociée à des contraintes de licenciement paramétrées en coratin (Charette et Göksel 1994, 1996Kaye 2001et Scheer 2010 permettra de rendre compte de ces alternances dans ce dialecte. L'analyse sera formalisée dans un cadre théorique neutre en utilisant des points squelettaux X de type « autosegmental » à la manière de Chierchia (1986).…”

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L'alternance des voyelles moyennes en coratin : une analyse basée sur la théorie des éléments

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2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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Coratino is a dialect spoken in the region of Puglia, in which there is a process of vowel reduction: all unstressed vowels except /a/ are reduced to schwa. However, this reduction does not happen when a vowel is adjacent to a consonant that shares a melody element, such as palatality for front vowels and velarity or labiality for back vowels. In addition, the ATR property of the mid vowels alternates: stressed /ε,ɔ/ are realized as [e,o] in unstressed positions, and /o,ɔ/ surface as [u] only when the adjacent consonant is velar. The analysis of this alternation is based on a version of Element Theory, and also on the licensing constraints that on the one hand define the specific choice a language makes among the combinatory possibilities, and on the other hand play a role in defining the properties of the phonological processes in the language.

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L'alternance des voyelles moyennes en coratin : une analyse basée sur la théorie des éléments

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2017

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“…The hierarchy explains why segments are targets of processes and how classes of segments interact. This proposition is a contribution to the debate between Dresher (2014) and Scheer (2010) on the possibility to apply the contrastivist approach to Element Theory. Eventually, we showed that the contrastivist approach is compatible with elements and provides opportunity to get rid of the problems linked to the use of binary features.…”

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From Binary Features to Elements: The Case of Scandinavian

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Voeltzel

2015

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In this paper, we show how the <em>Contrastivist Hypothesis</em> (Hall 2007, Dresher 2008) can be amended using Element Theory (KLV 1988; Angoujard 1997; Scheer 1999; Backley 2011) and Government Phonology (KLV 1990; Lowenstamm 1996; Scheer 2004). Given the richness of the phenomenology of Nordic languages, this family constitutes our testing ground. While one might expect five different hierarchies, given that Scandinavian languages are distinct languages, what we actually find is one unique hierarchy where the same features are used in the same order. However, if we want a full understanding of the Nordic phenomenology and if we maintain the hierarchy exactly as it is, two difficulties appear: the first one involves motivation, the second one naturalness. In order to overcome the two kinds of difficulties mentioned above, we aim to develop a representation of the obstruent inventory based on unary primes using Element Theory and Government Phonology. The results we get from this hierarchy cannot be considered independently from the syllabic structure. Therefore, we propose a rereading of the phenomenology of Nordic that connects the new elementary representations that we posit to the syllabic constraints. As a consequence, we explore new hypotheses concerning the phonological activity in Scandinavian languages.

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Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges

Scheer

2012

J. Ling.

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San Duanmu'sSyllable Structure: The Limits of Variationraises a number of questions that are of general interest for phonological theory. Of special interest here are: the genesis and management of linearity in complex segments, the place of analogy (or paradigm uniformity) in grammar, the role of morphology in accounting for phonological patterns, the balance of static (distributional patterns) and dynamic (phonological processes) evidence for syllable structure, the role of stress in syllabification, and the import of corpus-based data for phonological analysis. In each case, Duanmu's proposals are evaluated according to their intrinsic consistency, the empirical record and the relevant body of literature. Alternative ways of handling the phenomena are offered, and these are fairly traditional in most cases. Duanmu's book is particularly relevant in the current constitution of the field where the see-saw movement between computation and representations seems to swing back in direction of the latter after having long been immobilised on the computational end. Standing clearly on the representational side, the theory exposed in the book aims to show that all surface strings may be reduced to a fixed and invariant syllable template, C(onsonant)V(owel)X. This enterprise is interesting especially in presence of another representationally-oriented theory, CVCV (Lowenstamm 1996, Scheer 2004), which also aims at reducing surface variation to an invariant syllabic skeleton, made of a monotonic sequence of CV units. However, the CVX and the CVCV templates are quite distinct, and the strategies that are used in order to accommodate the surface string are opposite (shrinking in the former case, expanding in the latter).

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How to marry (structuralist) contrast and (generative) processing

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

L'alternance des voyelles moyennes en coratin : une analyse basée sur la théorie des éléments

L'alternance des voyelles moyennes en coratin : une analyse basée sur la théorie des éléments

From Binary Features to Elements: The Case of Scandinavian

Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges

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