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Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns : A Case of Contrastive Palatalization

By Alexei Kochetov

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2002
ISBN
9781136721410, 9780415941549
LCC
P235.3 .K63 2013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6794501 bytes)
Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
269\269
Time added
2023-08-05 23:47:11
Phonology

Description

First Published in 2002. Production, Perception and Phontactic Patterns presents the first experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents in general, with a special focus on the nature of positional markedness scales, one of the key concepts in the current phonological theory (Optimality Theory). Through a series of experiments the author questions the traditional assumption that positional markedness scales are directly encoded in Universal Grammar and provides an alternative account based on gestural recoverability. This study combines a sophisticated and in-depth analysis of language-particular phonetic detail with wide cross-linguistic generalisations and contributes to the increasingly influential body of research that investigates phonetic factors in the search for explanations of phonological universals.

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