Some listener-oriented accounts of h-aspiré in French

Boersma, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2006.11.004

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“…These two representations (see Fig. 2) are part of a more elaborate comprehensive model for bidirectional phonology and phonetics (Boersma 2007a), but any representations ' above ' the surface form, such as the underlying form, are not discussed in this paper (except briefly in ww5.3 and 7.1), because they are not required for illustrating our point. Also, Fig.…”

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“…Flemming 1995 : 119-151). The bidirectional phonology and phonetics model generally accounts for such phenomena by ranking cue constraints over faithfulness constraints (Boersma 2007a(Boersma : 2035. 19 A rigorous analysis in these terms of all effects ascribed to dispersion constraints in the literature falls outside the scope of the present paper.…”

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The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

Boersma

Hamann

2008

Phonology

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This paper reconciles the standpoint that language users do not aim at improving their sound systems with the observation that languages seem to improve their sound systems. If learners optimise their perception by gradually ranking their cue constraints, and reuse the resulting ranking in production, they automatically introduce a PROTOTYPE EFFECT, which can be counteracted by an ARTICULATORY EFFECT. If the two effects are of unequal size, the learner will end up with a sound system auditorily different from that of her language environment. Computer simulations of sibilant inventories show that, independently of the initial auditory sound system, a stable equilibrium is reached within a small number of generations. In this stable state, the dispersion of the sibilants of the language strikes an optimal balance between articulatory ease and auditory contrast. Crucially, these results are derived within a model without any goal-oriented elements such as dispersion constraints.

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The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

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2008

Phonology

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“…In Sect. 4.3, we illustrate that our reading grammar is compatible with a perception grammar as proposed by Boersma (2007) and applied by Boersma and Hamann (2009) to loan adaptations, and that the combined model can account for possible cases of simultaneous orthographic and perceptual borrowings.…”

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“…The BiPhon model (Boersma 2007) with a meaning level in grey (Apoussidou 2007) and the proposed mapping from written onto phonological surface form (and vice versa), i.e. the sub-lexical route…”

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“…Boersma's perception grammar that we employed is part of the larger grammar model of Bidirectional Phonetics and Phonology (BiPhon; Boersma 2007Boersma , 2011, where not only the perception but also the recognition process is modelled, i.e. the activation of a lexical form on the basis of a surface phonological representation.…”

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A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

Hamann

Colombo

2017

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This study presents a formal generative model that integrates perception and reading, and uses English intervocalic consonants borrowed into Italian as either singletons or geminates to illustrate how the model works. Consisting of words borrowed in the 20th century, our data show that the quantity of the intervocalic consonant in an Italian loanword depends on its written representation in English, the source language. Thus only English intervocalic consonants that are written with two identical letters (for example, as in splatter) are borrowed as geminates. We provide a formalization of these orthographic adaptations with grapheme-to-phoneme mappings in the shape of Optimality-theoretic constraints that model the native reading process, and show how the output of these mappings is restricted by native phonotactic constraints. Furthermore, we illustrate that the native reading grammar proposed here complements the perceptual adaptation model by Boersma and Hamann (2009). This combined model is shown to be able to account for simultaneous orthographic and perceptual borrowings in Italian, as well as to hold for reading and perception outside the realm of loanword adaptation.

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Topintzi¹

2011

The Blackwell Companion to Phonology

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Onsets are obligatory in the most typical syllable found cross‐linguistically, the consonant—vowel (CV) syllable, and as such, are found ubiquitously across languages. This chapter explores various aspects of onsets, covering much of their structural, segmental, and suprasegmental behavior. Using empirical data as a point of departure, various stances and theoretical views will be addressed on a number of issues. These include the presence of the onset in unmarked CV syllables (§1), onset clusters and the role of sonority in their formation (§2), and the structure and representation of the onset within the syllable (§3). The focus will then shift to the onset's often disregarded role in suprasegmental phonology with reference to several weight‐based phenomena (§4). The chapter closes by briefly reviewing approaches that tackle the onset—coda asymmetry (§5).

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Some listener-oriented accounts of h-aspiré in French

Cited by 50 publications

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The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

A formal account of the interaction of orthography and perception

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