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Contrast Preservation in Phonological Mappings

, 2003
The present study investigates how information about contrasts is employed in the grammar. It is proposed that contrast preservation exists as an independent principle, which, within the framework of Optimality Theory, is formalized as a family of rankable and violable constraints on preserving contrasts. Those constraints interact with one another and
Łubowicz, Anna
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Contrast in syntax and contrast in phonology

2020
This chapter investigates the parallels and asymmetries between contrastive features in phonology and syntax, with particular reference to the notion of a contrastive hierarchy. In phonology, contrastive features can be assigned to segments by a recursive procedure that applies to the underlying phonemic inventory of a language.
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Contrastive sentence phonology

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1974
Contrastive phonology has been preoccupied with the phoneme concept and the isolated word. The Contrastive Structure Series demonstrates this quite clearly. In Moulton's contrastive comparison of English and German sounds (Moulton, 1962), to take a representative example of the series and of contrastive phonological studies in general, 107 pages out of
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Contrast in Phonology

2008
This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract ...
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Contrast is irrelevant in phonology

2017
Abstract Halle’s (1959) argument against a distinction between morphophonemic and phonemic rules can be understood as an argument against the relevance of contrast to phonology. After adducing further arguments against a role for contrast, the paper provides a simple contrast-free analysis of the classic ...
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The Perceptual Acquisition of Phonological Contrasts

Language, 2004
Stager and Werker (1997) show that fourteen-month-olds engaged in a word-learning task fail to respond to a switch between the minimal pair [bI] and [dI], though they do respond to a switch between [IIf] and [nim] in the same task. In this article we show that the [bI]/[dI] results extend to stimuli that respect English phonotactics ([bIn] vs.
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Contrastive Specification in Phonology

2017
Abstract The fundamental idea underlying the use of distinctive features in phonology is the proposition that the same phonetic properties that distinguish one phoneme from another also play a crucial role in accounting for phonological patterns.
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Discovering the acoustic correlates of phonological contrasts

Journal of Phonetics, 2003
Abstract Recently, some researchers have argued that words are stored in the brain as numerous, detailed, variant exemplars. The promoters of this view must demonstrate how phonological contrasts could be inferred from multiple, detailed phonetic exemplars. I describe a signal-processing method that does just that. It is also evident that many subtle
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The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast

2014
Studies of both synchronic phonetics and morpho-phonological alternations are needed to understand the forces that historically shaped and now maintain the phonemic system of Romanian. Through a series of case studies on the Romanian vowel system, this book proposes that the robustness of a phonemic contrast does not depend solely on the presence of ...
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