Phonology and Language Use

Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use

Optionality and Gradience in Persian Phonology: An Optimality Treatment

The distribution of the allophones of /?/in certain contexts involves free variation and gradient preferences. An organized survey was conducted to elicit the judgments of 37 native Persian speakers concerning the well-formedness of /?/allophonic behavior in five different phonological positions. The results showed that the differences in judgment between the various categories are not just t...

Russian Loanword Adaptation in Persian; Optimal Approach

In this paper we analyzed some of the phonological rules of Russian loanword adaptation in Persian, on the view of Optimal Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky, 1993, 2003). It is the first study of phonological process on Russian loanwords adaptation in Persian. By gathering about 50 current Russian loanwords, we selected some of them to analyze. We found out that vowel insertion, vowel prothesis...

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool Second Edition

Assessing Language • Identify a disorder • Describe the disorder in terms of – Aspects/domains affected – Modalities affected – Strengths and needs • Plan intervention of treatment Language Domains • Form-syntax, morphology, phonology • Content-semantic components: knowledge of vocabulary and knowledge about objects and events • Use—pragmatics: the rules of oral language used in responding to a...

Emergent phonology

0. Speech and phonology As is well known the physical properties of speech are determined by a large number of factors. They vary depending on the language spoken, on the age, gender and identity of the speaker. They undergo stylistical modifications in innumerable ways owing to the interaction of physiological, cognitive, social and communicative factors. Linguistics deals with this problem by...

Moving from hand to mouth: echo phonology and the origins of language

Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they share with gestures have been suggested to provide information about possible origins of human language. These features include sharing common articulators with gestures, and exhibiting substantial iconicity in comparison to spoken languages. If human proto-language was gestural, the question remains...