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What is phonological typology? [PDF]

UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2014
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2014) What is Phonological Typology? Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley Paper presented at the Workshop on Phonological Typology, University of Oxford, Somerville College, August 11-13, 2013 “Whatever typology is, it is on a roll at the moment and likely to continue.” (Nichols 2007: 236 ...
Larry M. Hyman
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Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology

Linguistic Typology, 2022
AbstractTypologists strive to compare like with like, but four dilemmas make this challenging in phonology: (1) the non-uniqueness of phonological analysis; and the existence of (2) multiple levels of analysis; (3) multiple theories of phonology; and (4) analytical interdependencies between phonological phenomena.
Erich R. Round
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Hip-hop rhymes reiterate phonological typology

Lingua, 2015
In this paper, we analyze a database of rhymes from African-American English hip-hop. The analysis shows that rappers possess detailed implicit knowledge about speech sounds that is largely irrelevant to the sound pattern of their particular language, but has been argued to play a role in constraining possible sound systems across all human languages ...
Jonah Katz
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With or Without a System: How Category-Specific and System-Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Certain recurrent features of language characterize the way a whole language system is structured. By contrast, others target specific categories of items within those wider systems. For example, languages tend to exhibit consistent order of heads and dependents across different phrases—a system‐wide regularity known as harmony.
Holtz A, Kirby S, Culbertson J.
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Cross‐linguistic characterization of speech and language profiles of English, Chinese, and Italian Primary Progressive Aphasia patients: a data‐driven approach [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract Background Speech and language profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) has primarily been described based on English‐speaking cohorts. However, the potential influence of language typology in the clinical manifestation of PPA remains unclear.
Santi G, Catricalà E, Kwan S, Wong A, Ezzes Z, Wauters L, Esposito V, Conca F, Chen T, Chen L, Lo R, Tsoh J, Chan L, Garcia A, Deleon J, Miller Z, Vonk J, Allen I, Canu E, Agosta F, Filippi M, Cappa S, Tempini M, Tee B.   +23 more
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Syllable Structure in Setswana Personal Names

Вопросы ономастики, 2023
The study analyses the characteristics of syllables in personal names of the Setswana (Tswana) language (Sotho subgroup of the Bantu languages, Southern Africa).
Boikanyego Sebina, Thapelo Joseph Otlogetswe   +1 more
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Wortsprachliche Merkmale im Alemannischen

Linguistik Online, 2019
This paper examines the strategies for profiling the phonological word in Alemannic, applying the typology of syllable and word languages. The diagnostic criteria selected for assessing the relevance of the phonological word include syllable structure ...
Javier Caro Reina
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A typological study of vowel interactions in Basque

Isogloss, 2015
The aim of this paper is to check the factorial typology for a set of phonological constraints on vowel interactions in Basque against corpus data (Hualde and Gaminde 1998, Euskararen Herri Hizkeren Atlasa, ‘The Basque Dialectological Atlas’) with the ...
Varun deCastro-Arrazola, Edoardo Cavirani, Kathrin Linke, Francesc Torres-Tamarit   +3 more
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The Formal Dynamism of Categories: Stops vs. Fricatives, Primitivity vs. Simplicity [PDF]

, 2008
Minimalist Phonology (MP; Pöchtrager 2006) constructs its theory based on the phonological epistemological principle (Kaye 2001) and exposes the arbitrary nature of standard Government Phonology (sGP) and strict-CV (sCV), particularly with reference to ...
B. Bernhardt, D. Shariatmadari, G. Breen, J. Kaye, J. Kaye, J. Lowenstamm, L. Trask, M. Charette, M. Charette, M. Guasti, N. Bernstein-Ratner, N. Chomsky, P. Fikkert, R. Kirchner, R. LaPolla, S. Chin, S. Jensen, Shanti Úlfsbjörninn, T. Scheer, T. Zamuner, W. Nelson   +20 more
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Two Case Studies in Phonological Universals: A View from Artificial Grammars

Biolinguistics, 2010
This article summarizes the results of two experiments that use artificial grammar learning in order to test proposed phonological universals. The first universal involves limits on precedence-modification in phonological representations, drawn from a ...
Andrew Nevins
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