Contrastive Linguistic English Phonology Vs. Arabic Phonology

The contrastive hierarchy in phonology*

I will show that phonologists have vacillated between two different and incompatible approaches to determining whether a feature is contrastive in any particular phoneme. One approach involves extracting contrastive features from fully-specified minimal pairs. I will show that this approach is provably untenable. A second approach arrives at contrastive specifications by ordering features into ...

Linguistic Levels : Phonology

Changes in the sound system of a language may involve many different aspects. First, phonemes may be added to an inventory, they may become obsolete, or they may change their shape. Second, allophonic rules may emerge (e.g. "voice intersonorant fricatives"), disappear, or change. Third, phonotactic restrictions may be added (e.g. no syllable-initial Iknl sequences, so that such clusters are red...

Seminar on English Phonology

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Graded Constraints in English Phonology

A Logical Approach To Arabic Phonology

Logical approaches to linguistic description, particularly those which employ feature structures, have generally treated phonology as though it was the same as orthography. This approach breaks down for languages where the phonological shape of a morpheme can be heavily dependent on the phonological shape of another, as is the case in Arabic. In this paper we show how the tense logical approach...