Friulian Phonology

Intonational phonology of Friulian and its dialects

Phonology

Phonology is the systematic study of the sounds used in language, their internal structure, and their composition into syllables, words and phrases. Computational phonology is the application of formal and computational techniques to the representation and processing of phonological information. This chapter will present the fundamentals of descriptive phonology along with a brief overview of c...

Phonetics-phonology interface and laboratory phonology

Clusters are described by phonotactics, which determines phonological conditions and constraints on the occurrence or co-occurrence of sounds in a given language (e.g., [pstr-] in Polish pstrąg ‘trout’, [-ps] in English lapse). Syllables, morphemes or words serve as domains of phonotactics. However, the functions of phonotactics – to achieve easily pronounceable and perceptable sequences – may ...

Phonetics in Phonology and Phonology in Phonetics

5. Some caveats -The phonetics/phonology interface is a broad topic that has been considered from many points of views. -Extensive recent literature in acquisition, psycholinguistics, role of the lexicon, role of speech perception (See among others, recent LabPhon volumes, Burton-Roberts et al. 2000, Hume and Johnson 2001, Bod et al. 2003) -Conclusion recently argued for by Pierrehumbert (2003,...

Mayan phonology

This article provides an overview of the phonology of Mayan languages. The principal aim is to describe the commonalities and differences between phonological systems in the Mayan family. I have also tried to highlight some phonological patterns which are interesting from a typological or theoretical perspective. There are many intriguing aspects of Mayan phonology which remain understudied; I’...