Bridging the gap between receptive and productive development with minimally violable constraints

A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolution

“…Since the relation between Auditory and Surface Form is expressed in terms of cues, an OT modelling of the mapping from Auditory to Surface Form is expected to involve cue constraints. An account of the perception of English /i/ and /!/ in terms of cue constraints alone was given by Escudero & Boersma (2003, 2004. As an example, they considered the auditory event [vocalic material, F1 = 349 Hz, duration = 74 ms], to be abbreviated as [349 Hz,74 ms].…”

“…Because of the striking parallels, 'robust interpretive parsing' can be equated with prelexical perception, the 'overt form' can be regarded as a somewhat abstract variety of Auditory Form, and the 'full structural description' can be equated with the Surface Form (Boersma 2003); this is the interpretation assumed by Apoussidou & Boersma (2003, 2004 and the reason for the notations in (9) and (10). The big point that Tesar and Smolensky made was that structural constraints are needed both in the production direction ( §1.2) and in the comprehension direction (the metrical examples above).…”

Loan Phonology

“…1 the integration of perception and phonology is much stronger than that: the output of the perception process itself is evaluated by structural constraints. As argued by Polivanov (1931), Boersma (2000, and Pater (2004), the same structural constraints that restrict phonological production (the top right of Fig. 1) also restrict prelexical perception (the bottom left of Fig.…”

“…metrical) structure by using the same ranking of the structural constraints as they use for production. 13 Cue constraints turned up in Boersma (1997Boersma ( , 1998Boersma ( , 2000Boersma ( , 2006Boersma ( , 2008, , Escudero (2005), Boersma & Escudero (2008), , and Hamann (2009), and their interaction with structural constraints was formalized in various degrees of similarity to the present proposal by Boersma (1998Boersma ( :164-171,364-396, 2000, Boersma, Escudero & Hayes (2003), and Pater (2004).…”

Vogais Em Posição Postônica Final: Percepção E Produção (No Sul Do Brasil)

“…Assim, o traço [+tenso] cumpre papel distintivo fundamental entre as vogais neutralizadas nos níveis fonológico de superfície e fonético. As restrições de pista já apareceram em trabalhos como Boersma (1998Boersma ( , 2000, Escudero;Boersma (2003Boersma ( , 2004, e Pater (2004), sobre restrição não exerce uma função de proibição, tal como acontece com lidas e utilizadas na produção e na percepção ao mesmo tempo. A leitura da restrição obedece à seguinte estrutura: não produza /x/ fonológico como [y] fonético e, ao mesmo tempo, não perceba [y] fonético como /x/ fonológico.…”