Phonology as Human Behavior: Applying Theory to the Clinic

Tobin, Yishai

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“…Thus, the semantic feature of SI can explain the various instances of "irregular" Plurals, including IVA noun Plurals in the same way as that of the so-called exceptions of mass or count nouns in English were explained by the semantic feature of Semantic Integrality, proposed in Tobin (1995b: 76). This further implies that the mass nouns of the Syncretism system and nouns such as person-people in the Suppletion system (discussed in EvenSimkin and Tobin 2009Tobin , 2010 are also not exceptions to the "regular" Plural formation (lexical item + -s/-es), but rather belong to separate semantic systems. Similar semantic accounts of the so-called problematic grammatical number system may be found in the works of e.g.…”

Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

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“…Reid's study "does not recognize 'noun' as an inherent grammatical category (for English, at any rate), it naturally does not recognize the subdivisions of that category" (Reid 1991: 66). Reid sees mass nouns as being part of the Entity Number System, discussed in Even-Simkin and Tobin (2009Tobin ( , 2010, and not as an essentially distinct category that works under its own idiosyncratic rules.…”

Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Therefore, many if not most of the original IVA nouns and several other nominal forms that originally were part of the IVA system according to Emerson (1910), Hulbert (1963), Quirk and Wrenn (1955), Mitchell and Robinson (1982), Baugh (1957) and others follow the "regular" rules of Plural formation (lexical item + -s/-es). However, the ModE IVA nominal forms still follow the same systematic phonological fronting process distinguishing them from the IVA verbal forms that still retain the systematic phonological backing process (Even-Simkin and Tobin 2009Tobin , 2010. Thus, this reduced number of IVA nouns should not be viewed merely as arbitrarily formed exceptions to the so-called regular (-s/-es) plural formation of nouns in English but rather as a system of linguistic signs which exemplifies the interface between form and meaning.…”

Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

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“…Furthermore, it is well-known that vowels produce less clear-cut communicative distinctions than consonants (cf. Even-Simkin and Tobin 2009Tobin , 2010. Thus, this predominant monosyllabic structure emphasizes the IVA in word medial position, making it more salient and easier to perceive the internal change of the vowel.…”

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“…2002; including the theory Phonology As Human Behavior (PHB), e.g. Diver 1979Diver , 1993Tobin 1997aTobin , 2009.…”

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Common Semantic Denominators of the Internal Vowel Alternation System in English

Even-Simkin

Tobin

2011

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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The Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) system is commonly referred to as arbitrarily appearing in a small number of the so-called irregular noun plurals (e.g. goose-geese, mouse-mice) and past tense verb forms (e.g. sing-sang, take-took) in Modern English. But, historically, IVA was a prevalent and productive process in Old English in both the nominal and the verbal systems. In this paper, we will postulate that the IVA is a fullfledged sign system composed of a signal (signifiant) that is connected to a meaning (signifié) in the Saussurean sense. It has already been demonstrated that the IVA nominal and verbal forms are systematic phonologically (Even-Simkin and Tobin 2009). In this paper, we will present the semantic systems underlying the IVA forms. Beedham (2005: 114) argues that "[a]ll linguistic forms must fit into the system somehow, and they all must have a meaning, it is simply a case of working out how they fit in and what the meaning is". In this semantic analysis of the IVA forms we will show that the English IVA systems are both motivated and systematic semantically -i.e. that differences in form always imply differences in meaning (Bolinger 1977). We will maintain that each IVA pattern reflects a fundamental common semantic denominator. Thus our study connects the form-phonology and the meaning-semantics of the phenomenon of IVA as a full-fledged system of linguistic signs in English.KEY WORDS: IVA system, past tense verbs, noun plurals, semantic aspect.The two linguistic utterances [maen] and [mae:n] are the same word not because they are phonetically identical -they are not -but because we treat the difference between them as insignificant. On the other hand, the two utterances [maen] and [mɛn] count as different words despite their phonetic similarity because we treat the difference between them as significant. This social aspect of language Saussure dubbed langue. (Reid 2006:18) Brought to you by | HEC Bibliotheque Maryriam ET J. Authenticated Download Date | 6/16/15 11:37 PM Semantic denominators of the internal vowel alternation system 309 [...] the irregularity of the irregular verbs will disappear if we can find rules for them. If we find the meaning and the rules at all we will find them together, at the same time, because the linguistic sign is indivisible, i.e. form and meaning are indivisible.

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Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: The Semantic Features Of the Nominal Iva System In Old And Mmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…2002; including the theory Phonology As Human Behavior (PHB), e.g. Diver 1979Diver , 1993Tobin 1997aTobin , 2009.…”

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2011

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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Beytenbrat¹

2015

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics

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Tourism development and the empowerment of local communities: The case of Mitzpe Ramon, a peripheral town in the Israeli Negev Desert

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2018

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Phonology as Human Behavior: Applying Theory to the Clinic

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Common Semantic Denominators of the Internal Vowel Alternation System in English

Common Semantic Denominators of the Internal Vowel Alternation System in English

Case in Russian

Tourism development and the empowerment of local communities: The case of Mitzpe Ramon, a peripheral town in the Israeli Negev Desert

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