Language Specific Markedness: The Case of Place of Articulation
نویسندگان
چکیده
Hume, Elizabeth. 2003. Language Specific Markedness: The Case of Place of Articulation. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. In this paper I draw on evidence from familiar criteria for diagnosing markedness values to argue that markedness is best determined on a language specific basis. I will further conclude that markedness considerations do not provide compelling evidence for constructing theories of phonological grammar. (Ohio State University)
منابع مشابه
Direction of Assimilation in Child Consonant Harmony
In child language, consonants often assimilate in primary place of articulation across intervening vowels. In adult language, primary place assimilation occurs only between adjacent consonants. In both cases, the first consonant usually assimilates to the second. The standard analysis of directionality of local assimilation in Optimality Theory uses positional faithfulness to protect the second...
متن کامل3 Place assimilation *
It is not difficult to derive place assimilation within the framework of previous theories such as classical generative theory, feature geometry, or underspecification theory. This is also true in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). For instance, if there is a markedness constraint of the type *HETERORGANICCLUSTER, and faithfulness constraints for place of articulation are ranked bel...
متن کاملMinority Language Policy and Planning in the Micro Context of the City: The Case of Manchester
This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with comm...
متن کاملUniversal Constraints on the Discrimination of Place of Articulation? Asymmetries in the Discrimination of ‘paan’ and ‘taan’ by 6-month-old Dutch Infants
This paper investigates whether sixmonth-old Dutch infants discriminate between differences in Place of Articulation, as in the novel word forms paan and taan. We tested 20 infants with the Hybrid Visual Habituation Procedure. Our results show an unexpected asymmetry in perception: whereas infants habituated on paan showed dishabituation upon hearing the change to taan, those habituated on taan...
متن کاملCross-language similarities and differences in the uptake of place information.
Cross-language differences in the use of coarticulatory cues for the identification of fricatives have been demonstrated in a phoneme detection task: Listeners with perceptually similar fricative pairs in their native phoneme inventories (English, Polish, Spanish) relied more on cues from vowels than listeners with perceptually more distinct fricative contrasts (Dutch and German). The present g...
متن کامل