Paul Boersma

List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Boersma plays a role.

Boersma, Paul 2011 A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolutionBidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 33–72 | Article
This paper summarizes an existing bidirectional six-level model of phonology and phonetics (and a bit of morphology). Bidirectionality in this case refers to the modelling of both the speaking process (production) and the listening process (comprehension). The elements of the grammar (the… read more
Boersma, Paul and Silke Hamann 2009 Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perceptionLoan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 11–58 | Article
We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of an Optimality-Theoretic grammar model with… read more
Boersma, Paul 2003 Nasal harmony in functional phonologyThe Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure, Weijer, Jeroen van de, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 3–35 | Article
Boersma, Paul and Clara Levelt 2003 Optimality Theory and phonological acquisitionAnnual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Article