Where Do Phonological Features Come From?

Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories

Editors
G. Nick Clements | CNRS & Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Rachid Ridouane | CNRS & Sorbonne-Nouvelle
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027208231 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00
 
e-Book
ISBN 9789027286949 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00
 
Google Play logo
This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?" held at the Sorbonne University, Paris, October 4-5, 2007. Several invited papers are included as well. The articles discuss issues concerning the mental status of distinctive features, their role in speech production and perception, the relation they bear to measurable physical properties in the articulatory and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in language development. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are explored, including those of general linguistics, phonetic and speech sciences, and language acquisition. The larger goal was to address current issues in feature theory and to take a step towards synthesizing recent advances in order to present a current "state of the art" of the field.
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 6] 2011.  xv, 347 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
“There is no more important question facing linguistics today than the question of how linguistic knowledge is represented in the brain. There is no better entree to an understanding of that question than phonology/phonetics. There is no better collection of articles than these to point the way. This is a volume worthy of the memory of Nick Clements, visionary yet solidly grounded in the present.”
“[F]eature theory has always attempted to offer an explanation for the way sounds are extracted from the acoustic signal and how their composing units are organized and stored in the brains of language users, so as to enable inter-speaker oral communication. The present volume speaks to the core of this issue. It provides a solid set of groundbreaking papers [...].”
Cited by

Cited by 11 other publications

Anderson, Stephen R.
2016. Synchronic Versus Diachronic Explanation and the Nature of the Language Faculty. Annual Review of Linguistics 2:1  pp. 11 ff. DOI logo
Anderson, Stephen R.
2021. Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America. In All Things Morphology [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353],  pp. 327 ff. DOI logo
Berry, Jeff & Maura Moyle
2011. Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 130:5  pp. EL365 ff. DOI logo
Byun, Tara Mc Allister & Anne‐Michelle Tessier
2016. Motor Influences on Grammar in an Emergentist Model of Phonology. Language and Linguistics Compass 10:9  pp. 431 ff. DOI logo
Kirby, James P. & D. Robert Ladd
2016. Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Evidence from “true voicing” languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:4  pp. 2400 ff. DOI logo
Koenig, Laura L., Susanne Fuchs & Jorge C. Lucero
2011. Effects of consonant manner and vowel height on intraoral pressure and articulatory contact at voicing offset and onset for voiceless obstruents. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129:5  pp. 3233 ff. DOI logo
Martins, Pedro T. & Cedric Boeckx
2014. Attention mechanisms and the mosaic evolution of speech. Frontiers in Psychology 5 DOI logo
Rose, Yvan
2020. There is no phonology without abstract categories: A commentary on Ambridge (2020). First Language 40:5-6  pp. 626 ff. DOI logo
Song, Jae Yung, Katherine Demuth & Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
2012. The development of acoustic cues to coda contrasts in young children learning American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131:4  pp. 3036 ff. DOI logo
Zhang, Jie & Hanbo Yan
2018. Contextually dependent cue realization and cue weighting for a laryngeal contrast in Shanghai Wu. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144:3  pp. 1293 ff. DOI logo
[no author supplied]
2014. Introduction. In Phonological Development,  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 16 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFH: Phonetics, phonology

Main BISAC Subject

LAN011000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2011006654 | Marc record