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Essays on Linguistic Realism
Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef
[Studies in Language Companion Series 196] 2018
► pp. 185–202

Chapter 7
Autonomous Declarative Phonology

A realist approach to the phonology of German

| TU Braunschweig

In the paradigm of Linguistic Realism, phonology deals with abstract objects. Consequently, phonological units cannot be derived from phonetics as the material side of speech production and reception. I suggest a theoretical approach that conceives of phonology as autonomous from phonetics; hence Autonomous Declarative Phonology. The central questions of this kind of phonology are: What are the phonological elements of a specific language system (in particular: German)? How can these phonological elements be combined in the language under analysis? I give a definition of what phonology is and show how individual phonological units can be motivated. In order to give a model-theoretic reconstruction of phonological sequences, I make reference to the concept of syllable, employing and re-interpreting ideas from generative phonology and other approaches such as hierarchical syllable structure, CV-phonology, and sonority.

Keywords: declarative phonology, minimal pairs, syllable, phonological word, sonority
Article outline
  • 1.Fields of linguistics
  • 2.A theory for languages as abstract objects
  • 3.Autonomous Declarative Phonology
    • 3.1Defining phonology
    • 3.2Determining the set of phonological units
    • 3.3Paradigmatic properties of phonological units
    • 3.4Syntagmatic properties of phonological units
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2018
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