Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues

362 Pages·2001·48.12 MB·English

by  Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr, Gerard Docherty

Phonological
Knowledge
Conceptual and Empirical Issues
EDITED BY
Noel Burton-Robeits, Philip Carr,
and Gerard Docheity
Phonological Knowledge

Phonological
Knowledge
Conceptual and Empirical Issues
edited by
NOEL B U R T O N - R O B E R T S ,
PHILIP CARR,and
GERARD D O C H E R T Y
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Notes on Contributors ix
(CO-) author of numerous influential books and papers in these areas, including
The Sound Pattern of Russian (1959), The Sound Pattern of English (with Noam
Chomsky, 1968), and An Essay on Stress (with J.-R. Vergnaud, 1987).
John Harris is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He writes on
phonological theory, the phonology-phonetics interface, language disorder, and
the history of English. His publications include English Sound Structure (1994) and
Phonological Variation and Change (1985).
Harry van der Hulst, Director of the Holland Institute for Generative Linguistics
until 1999, is Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Skidmore College, and Visiting
Scholar, New York University. His interests are phonology, sign language,
language acquisition and change, on which he is published widely. He is editor of
The Linguistic Review and has (with C. Ewan) a textbook on non-linear phonology
forthcoming.
Bob Ladd is Professor of Linguistics at Edinburgh University. His interests are
intonation and prosody, on which he has published two books, The Structure of
Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English (1980) and Intonational Phonology
(1996). He is proponent of the development of Laboratory Phonology and was
co-editor of Language & Speech (1994-2000).
Geoff Lindsey is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Language and
Communication Science at City University, London. His research interests include
the phonetics-phonology interface, forensic phonetics, and intonation.
Scott Myers is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of
Texas at Austin. His research interests are in phonetics, phonology, and Bantu
languages. Recent publications include ‘OCP effects in Optimality Theory’
{Natural Language & Linguistic Theory) and ‘Surface Underspecification of Tone
in Chichewa’ (Phonology).
Janet Pierrehumbert is Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University and a
Fellow of the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her interests include
intonation, prosody, allophony, and lexical representation, on which she has
published widely. She co-authored, with M. Beckman, Japanese Tone Structure
(1988).
Charles Reiss is Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program, Concordia
University. His interests include phonology, morphology, language acquisition
and change, learnability, philosophical foundations of linguistic theory, and
cognitive science. He is co-author, with M. Hale, of several recent articles in
Linguistic Inquiry.
Marilyn Vihman is Professor of Developmental Phonology at the University of
Wales, Bangor, UK. Her interests include cross-linguistic study of language
acquisition, acoustic analysis of prosody, developmental study of Welsh, and early
phonology. She is the author of Phonological Development: The Origins of Language
in the Child (1996).
Contents
Abbreviations
VI
Notes on Contributors viii
1. Introduction
Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr, and Gerard Docherty
2. The Ontology of Phonology (Revised) 19
Sylvain Bromberger and Morris Halle
3. Where and What is Phonology? A Representational Perspective
39
Noel Burton-Roberts
4. Scientific Realism, Sociophonetic Variation, and Innate
Endowments in Phonology
67
Philip Carr
5. Speaker, Speech, and Knowledge of Sounds 105
Gerard Docherty and Paul Foulkes
6. Phonology and Phonetics in Psycholinguistic Models of Speech
Perception
131
Jennifer Fitzpatrick and Linda R. Wheeldon
7. Phonology as Cognition 161
Mark Hale and Charles Reiss
8. Vowel Patterns in Mind and Sound
185
John Harris and Geoff Lindsey
9. Modularity and Modality in Phonology 207
Harry van der Hulst
10 Boundary Disputes: The Distinction between Phonetic and
Phonological Sound Patterns
245
Scott Myers
11. Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science 273
Janet Pierrehumbert, Mary E. Beckman, and D. R. Ladd
12. Phonetics and the Origins of Phonology
305
Marilyn Vihman and Shelley Velleman
Name Index 341
Language Index
347
Subject Index
349
Abbreviations vii
UPSID UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database
UR underlying representation
VOT Voice Onset Timing
Notes on Contributors
Sylvain Bromberger is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. A collection of his papers (on various topics) appeared under the title
On What We Know We Don't Know (1992). He has written a number of papers on
the foundations of phonology with Morris Halle. He was the dedicatee of The View
from Building 20 (1993), which includes his picture.
Mary Beckman is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. A major
proponent of Laboratory Phonology, she has developed experimental paradigms
for the investigation of prosody and intonation and works on first/second-
language phonological acquisition. Editor of the Journal of Phonetics (1990-4), she
has published Stress and Non-Stress Accent (1986) and, with J. B. Pierrehumbert,
Japanese Tone Structure (1988).
Noel Burton-Roberts is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University
of Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include semantics, pragmatics, the
architecture of the language faculty, the nature/status of phonology, and sign
theory. He is the author of The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic
Presupposition (1989) and Analysing Sentences (1997).
Philip Carr is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the
University Paul Valery (Montpellier III), France. His interests include phonology
and the philosophy of linguistics. He is the author of Linguistic Realities (1990),
Phonology (1993), and English Phonetics and Phonology (1999).
Gerard Docherty is Senior Lecturer, Department of Speech, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne. His interests include phonetics, phonological variation, and
disordered speech production. He is the author of The Timing of Voicing in British
English Obstruents (1992) and co-editor of Urban Voices: Phonological Variation
and Change in the British Isles (2000).
Jennifer Fitzpatrick is a research scholar in the Department of Linguistics,
University of Konstanz. Her interests include intonation, prosody, typological
phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface. Her recent published work
concerns issues in phrasal phonology.
Paul Foulkes is Lecturer in Language Variation and Change, University of York.
His interests include phonological acquisition and urban dialectology. With
Gerard Docherty he is joint editor of Urban Voices: Phonological Variation and
Change in the British Isles (2000).
Morris Halle is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. His main interests lie in phonology and morphology. He is the
Notes on Contributors
Shelley Velleman is Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her interests include normal/disordered phonolo­
gical development, developmental verbal dispraxia, and the application of
Optimality Theory to early phonologies. She is the author of Making Phonology
Functional: What Do I Do First (1998).
Linda Wheeldon is a lecturer in the School of Psychology, Birmingham University.
Her research in experimental psycholinguistics concerns prosody, lexical retrieval,
the monitoring of inner speech, and the syntax of speech. She has recent papers in
Cognition and the Journal of Memory and Language.