Phonological structure - Open Access .click

2023
AbstractThe primitives of phonological theory—whether we call them features, elements, gestures, or by some other name—stand in some relation to phonetic reality. Although there is consensus about this, there seems to be little agreement about most of the specifics involved. How many features are there? Are they privative or binary? Do segments need to
Oostendorp, M. van +3 more
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Syllable structure in Government Phonology

2017
This chapter outlines how Government Phonology (GP) accounts for syllable structure. Traditionally, syllable structure is encoded by arboreal structure, that is, the syllabic tree with the canonical constituent structure. Rather than talking about the effect of syllabification, GP elevates to theoretical relevance its origin: the lateral relationship ...
Scheer, Tobias, Cyran, Eugeniusz
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Saussure and structural phonology

2022
AbstractFerdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) had a shaping impact on modern phonology with two books. The Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes (Memoir on the Primitive System of Vowels in the Indo-European Languages; 1879) was hastily composed in a compressed and jejune style that has always limited its readership.
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Hokkien phonological structure

Journal of Linguistics, 1970
This paper attempts to present the abstract phonological system which underlies the sounds produced when a Malayan variety of Engchun Hokkien is spoken.2 It is set within a generative framework and some attempt is made at a formalization of phonological rules.
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phonology
language acquisition
syllable structure

phonological awareness
lexical processing
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mental lexicon
phonetics
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