Principles of Dependency Phonology

Anderson, John M.; Ewen, Colin J.

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“…The approach also has a clear relationship to structuralist phonology (Trubetzkoy, 1939;Martinet, 1955), as discussed at length by Dresher (2009). Obvious connections also exist with various versions of Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, and Element Theory (Anderson and Ewen, 1987;Harris and Lindsey, 1995;Backley, 2011) and with Schane's (1984) Particle Phonology. The insistence on phonology as a component with its own, domain-specific representations strongly echoes Foley's (1977) rejection of mainstream generative phonology as "transformational phonetics".…”

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Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: A representational approach

Iosad

2012

Lingua

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This paper proposes an account of final devoicing in Friulian which relies on contrastive feature specification and feature geometry to explicate the connection between final devoicing and vowel lengthening. It is proposed that obstruents which are the outcome of final devoicing are phonologically distinct from true voiceless obstruents, being completely unspecified for laryngeal features. It is argued that the representational deficiency of such delaryngealized obstruents is directly connected to their inability to license a mora, which opens the way to vowel lengthening. More generally, the paper shows how feature geometry may be adapted to capture the effects of contrastive specification and express markedness relations, and proposes a novel approach to hierarchies involving the sonority of coda segments.Keywords: final devoicing, moraic theory, sonority hierarchy, feature geometry, Romance languagesThe present paper has two purposes. Empirically, it focuses on final devoicing in Friulian and on the connection between final devoicing and vowel lengthening. Its aim is to account both for the phonetic phenomena involved in final devoicing and for the fact that stressed vowels are lengthened before devoiced obstruents (but only in a word-final syllable). From a theoretical perspective, the paper takes up several strands of recent research into markedness relations. I argue that feature specifications should be assigned solely on the basis of phenomena attested within Email address: pavel.iosad@uit.no (Pavel Iosad)

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“…Many privative approaches have formalized decrease in markedness as deletion of structure, in particular in the context of Dependency Phonology (Anderson and Ewen, 1987), Element Theory (Harris and Lindsey, 1995) and related theories, cf. Harris (1997Harris ( , 2005Harris ( , 2009Cyran (2010).…”

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Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: A representational approach

Iosad

2012

Lingua

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“…Compound words with 2 nouns are stressed on the first syllable; otherwise, the second syllable is stressed; Rhythmic pattern Stress-timed language, with the rhythmic pattern based on the regular repetition of the stressed syllables: Pattern {F = [S W]}, (F = Foot, S = strong, W = weak); Intensity: English word stress can be mainly recognized by intensity; therefore, stressed syllable is pronounced with much force, also longer (duration), and higher (pitch). Remembering the four criteria above helps students prevent from the three main types of stress errors: (1). Rhythmic error (no Rhythmic Pattern {F = [S W]}); (2).…”

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Some English Stress Mistakes and Solutions - A Phonetic Experimental Research on Vietnamese Students

Dieu¹

2017

IJLL

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Abstract:The combination of phonological knowledge with rhythm and English stress rules is one of the solutions for English stress problems facing Vietnamese students. From the phonetic experiment, some types of stress mistakes made by Vietnamese students were discovered. The hypothesis is that the English Rhythmic patterns and English stress rules will help students to solve their stress problems. However, the English stress rules are so complicated. Therefore, based on the main rhythmic pattern, the key for stress rules has been raised to simplify the way to recognize stressed syllables. The final target is to help Vietnamese students identify English words through different ways of stress placement in order to increase their pronunciation ability as well as catching the main idea in the conversation to improve their communicative skill in English.

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“…Since the first appearance of the triangular (A I U) model of vowel representation in Anderson and Jones (1974), it has been assumed that phonetic prominence corresponds to structural headedness and phonetic recessiveness to non-headedness or dependent status. Under this assumption, the literature (Anderson and Ewen 1987, Harris 1994, Backley 2011 has claimed that the contrast between two mid vowels such as e-ɛ be accounted for as follows (head elements are underlined).…”

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Features and Recursive Structure

Nasukawa

2015

NLY

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Based on the cross-linguistic tendency that weak vowels are realized with a central quality such as əә, ɨ, or ɯ, this paper attempts to account for this choice by proposing that the nucleus itself is one of the three monovalent vowel elements |A|, |I| and |U| which function as the building blocks of melodic structure. I claim that individual languages make a parametric choice to determine which of the three elements functions as the head of a nuclear expression. In addition, I show that elements can be freely concatenated to create melodic compounds. The resulting phonetic value of an element compound is determined by the specific elements it contains and by the head-dependency relations between those elements. This concatenation-based recursive mechanism of melodic structure can also be extended to levels above the segment, thus ultimately eliminating the need for syllabic constituents. This approach reinterprets the notion of minimalism in phonology by opposing the string-based flat structure.

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Principles of Dependency Phonology

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Cited by 308 publications

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Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: A representational approach

Final devoicing and vowel lengthening in Friulian: A representational approach

Some English Stress Mistakes and Solutions - A Phonetic Experimental Research on Vietnamese Students

Features and Recursive Structure

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