Experimental Approaches to Phonology

by Sole, Maria-Josep; Beddor, Patrice Speeter; Ohala, Manjari

• ISBN13: 9780199296675
• ISBN10: 0199296677
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This wide-ranging survey of experimental methods in phonetics and phonology shows the insights and results provided by different methods of investigation, including laboratory-based, statistical, psycholinguistic, computational-modeling, corpus, and field

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Theory and Background	p. 1
Methods in Phonology	p. 3
Elicitation as Experimental Phonology: Thlantlang Lai Tonology	p. 7
Decisions and Mechanisms in Exemplar-based Phonology	p. 25
Beyond Laboratory Phonology: The Phonetics of Speech Communication	p. 41
Area Functions and Articulatory Modeling as a Tool for Investigating the Articulatory, Acoustic, and Perceptual Properties of Sounds across Languages	p. 54
Phonological Universals	p. 73
Phonological Universals and the Control and Regulation of Speech Production	p. 75
Issues of Phonological Complexity: Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between Syllable Structures, Segment Inventories, and Tone Contrasts	p. 93
Linking Dispersion-Focalization Theory and the Maximum Utilization of the Available Distinctive Features Principle in a Perception-for-Action-Control Theory	p. 104
Phonetic Variation and Phonological Change	p. 125
Applying Perceptual Methods to the Study of Phonetic Variation and Sound Change	p. 127
Interpreting Misperception: Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder	p. 144
Coarticulatory Nasalization and Phonological Developments: Data from Italian and English Nasal-Fricative Sequences	p. 155
A Perceptual Bridge Between Coronal and Dorsal /r/	p. 175
Danish Stod: Phonological and Cognitive Issues	p. 192
Maintaining, Enhancing, and Modeling Phonological Contrasts	p. 207
Articulatory Movements and Phrase Boundaries	p. 209
Physiological and Physical Bases of the Command-Response Model for Generating Fundamental Frequency Contours in Tone Languages: Implications for the Phonology of Tones	p. 228
Probabilistic "Sliding Template" Models for Indirect Vowel Normalization	p. 246
The Variations, Quantification, and Generalizations of Standard Thai Tones	p. 270
Controlled and Mechanical Properties in Speech: A Review of the Literature	p. 302
Phonotactic and Phonological Knowledge	p. 323
What's in CVC-like Things? Ways and Means to Look at Phonological Units Across Languages	p. 325
The SLIP Technique as a Window on the Mental Preparation of Speech: Some Methodological Considerations	p. 339
Experimental Methods in the Study of Hindi Geminate Consonants	p. 351
Morphophonemics and the Lexicon: A Case Study from Turkish	p. 369
How Do Listeners Compensate for Phonology?	p. 386
Notes on Contributors	p. 405
References	p. 411
Index	p. 457
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