Palatalization and Coronality

Lahiri, Aditi; Evers, Vincent

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-544966-3.50011-7

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“…No relation between labial consonants and central vowels was reported. She proposed to account for these findings by pointing to their fit to a distinctive feature system formulated by Lahiri and Evers [1991] in which each of the CV pairs was designated as a single distinctive feature. The same feature designation is suggested by Clements and Hume [1995] within the subarea of feature geometry.…”

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Acquisition of Serial Complexity in Speech Production: A Comparison of Phonetic and Phonological Approaches to First Word Production

2002

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Comparison was made between performance-based and competence-based approaches to the understanding of first word production. The performance-related frame/content approach is representative of the biological/functional perspective of phonetics in seeking explanations based on motor, perceptual and cognitive aspects of speech actions. From this perspective, intrasyllabic consonant-vowel (CV) co-occurrence patterns and intersyllabic sequence patterns are viewed as reflective of biomechanical constraints emerging from mandibular oscillation cycles. A labial-coronal sequence effect involved, in addition, the problem of interfacing the lexicon with the motor system, as well as the additional problem of initiation of movement complexes. Competence-based approaches to acquisition are within the generative phonological tradition; involving an initial assumption of innate, speech-specific mental structures. While various current phonological approaches to acquisition involve consideration of sequence effects and intrasyllabic patterns, they do not adequately establish the proposed mental entities in infants of this age, and are nonexplanatory in the sense of not considering the causes of the structures and constraints that they posit.

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Acquisition of Serial Complexity in Speech Production: A Comparison of Phonetic and Phonological Approaches to First Word Production

2002

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“…Specifically, the place features for consonants and vowels may be represented on the same tier and, as such, may be interdependent and free to interact. A representational structure of this type involves the full inregrutiou of the consonant and vowel place features, as illustrated by the geometry of Lahiri and Evers (1991) shown in Figure I.' A full integration model has the advantage of being able to describe interactions of phonetically adjacent consonants and vowels.…”

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“…A fully integrated geometry Figure 1. Fully integrated feature geometry adapted from Lahiri and Evers (1991 has limitations, however, in that it cannot account for the spreading of place to phonetically non-adjacent segments when the intervening segment is also specified for place. In such cases the intervening specification of place will block feature spreading to non-adjacent segments given the well-formedness condition which prevents the crossing of association lines (Goldsmith, 1979).…”

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Geometric accounts of consonant-vowel interactions in developing systems

Gierut

Cho

Dinnsen

1993

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Phenomena associated with consonant-vowel interactions are examined relative to three general models of feature geometry which differ in the planar relationship of consonants and vowels. The data come from reports of developing phonological systems, both normal and disordered. Geometric analyses reveal that consonants and vowels are fully integrated in the earliest stages of development such that the place specification of consonants is primarily derived from the vowel. However, change through development requires modifications either in the principles of place association, the degree of feature specification, or the planar representation of consonants and vowels.

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“…Our argument rests on lexical entries which are abstract insofar as their phonological representations are not fully specified. The version of underspecification that we subscribe to is the model of a Featurally Underspecified Lexicon (FUL, as developed in Lahiri & Evers 1991;Ghini 2001;Lahiri & Reetz 2002, 2010etc.). In what follows we will sketch (i) how the stem vowels of strong verbs are lexically underspecified and (ii) how featural specifications are filled in, either following general phonological principles to do with redundancy or -and this is what distinguishes strong verbs from weak verbs -determined by inflectional categories.…”

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Macroscopic and microscopic typology: Basic Valence Orientation, more pertinacious than meets the naked eye

Plank

Lahiri

2017

Linguistic Typology

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Basic Valence Orientation has been suggested as a typological parameter by Nichols, Peterson, & Barnes (2004). Generalising over the entire lexicon, the idea is that languages can be distinguished as transitivising or detransitivising, depending on whether their verbs are basically intransitive or transitive and the opposite valency values require some means of derivation, such as causativisation or decausativisation. Whereas derivedness among valency opposites is assessed through easy-to-spot overt segmental morphological or syntactic markers by Nichols et al. (2004), we argue that PHONOLOGICAL alternations, on their own or attendant upon conjugation class switches between intransitives and transitives, can be as directed as derivations are which are implemented through adding segmental markers. Illustrating from German, we show that stem vowel patterns in strong and corresponding weak verbs (with the former expressing inflectional categories through ablaut) as well as umlaut alternations in verb derivation are systematically involved in valency oppositions and are both directed. Thus, German emerges as being typologically mixed, being strongly transitivising on the grounds of such asymmetric formal patterns, while also showing (as observed by Nichols et al. 2004) a detransitivising or indeterminate disposition through syntactic "middle" marking or verb lability. This typological result is also of diachronic significance, insofar as the older transitivising inclination is seen to have been remarkably pertinacious, long surviving the loss of the affixal valencyincreasing morphology of Common Germanic and able to hold its own against more recent detransitivising competition.

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Palatalization and Coronality

Cited by 77 publications

References 8 publications

Acquisition of Serial Complexity in Speech Production: A Comparison of Phonetic and Phonological Approaches to First Word Production

Acquisition of Serial Complexity in Speech Production: A Comparison of Phonetic and Phonological Approaches to First Word Production

Geometric accounts of consonant-vowel interactions in developing systems

Macroscopic and microscopic typology: Basic Valence Orientation, more pertinacious than meets the naked eye

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