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Gegenstand des Bandes ist der Entwurf eines kognitiv orientierten Modells zur Generierung und lautsprachlichen Realisierung prosodischer Merkmale und Konstituenten und deren computerlinguistische Umsetzung im Rahmen eines Sprachproduktionssystems.

Ausgangspunkt ist eine Begriffsbestimmung der Prosodie und eine funktionale Analyse prosodischer Phanomene in Bezug auf das grammatische Gesamtsystem. Im dritten Kapitel erfolgt die phonologische und phonetische Analyse und formale Definition prosodischer Merkmale und Konstituenten. Das vierte Kapitel widmet sich dem Proze der...

Dieses Buch enthalt die exemplarische Anwendung nichtlinearer Modelle auf drei Phanomenbereiche der Historischen Phonologie: Verners Gesetz, die mittelenglische Vokallangung sowie Vokaldehnungen und -kurzungen vom Mittelhochdeutschen zum Neuhochdeutschen.

(1) Der in Verners Gesetz beschriebene Stimmtonwechsel bei Obstruenten vom Indogermanischen zum Germanischen wird im Rahmen des Merkmalhierarchiemodells als Ausbreitung eines laryngalen Merkmals unter prosodischen Bedingungen reprasentiert.

(2) Die mittelenglische Vokallangung wird als Anpassung an eine kanonische...

Zwei Forschungstraditionen dominieren die phonologische Beschreibung von Rhythmus: zum einen die aus der Phonetik hervorgegangene Typologie silben- und akzentzahlender Sprachen, zum anderen die Metrische Phonologie. Dabei bestimmt der erste Ansatz rhythmische Qualitat temporal, der zweite akzentuell. Die vorliegende Monographie begrundet, warum beide Explikationen als Grundlage einer universellen Rhythmusphonologie problematisch sind und entwickelt eine neue Typologie, die die prosodischen Dimensionen der Zeit und der akzentuellen Prominenz gleichermaen berucksichtigt und ihre jeweiligen...

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to...

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to...

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.

This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from several different empirical directions. Psycholinguistic research into the perception and production of speech has produced results that challenge current conceptions about phonological structure. Field work studies provide fresh insights into the structure of phonological features, and the phonology-phonetics interface is investigated in phonetic research involving both segments and prosody, while the role of underspecification is put to the test in automatic speech recognition.

The book includes a selection of articles by Morris Halle dealing with issues in the theory and practice of phonetics and phonology. The articles, written in the course of the last forty years, concern matters that remain to this day at the cutting edge of the discipline.

The integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallmark of an influential trend in contemporary research on language. It is documented in the present collection of 21 new papers on the history and structure of the sounds and other (sub-) systems of human languages, sharing the common reference point of Theo Vennemann, a leading figure in the above-mentioned trend, whom the authors want to honor with this Festschrift.

This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to the familiar arboreal structure. This book shows that Standard Government Phonology did not go far enough in implementing this idea. CVCV...

This edited volume investigates the role of phonetics and phonology in psycholinguistics. Speaking and understanding spoken language both engage phonological and phonetic knowledge. There are detailed models of phonological and phonetic encoding in language production and there are equally refined models of phonetic and phonological processing in language comprehension. However, since most psycholinguists work on either language production or comprehension, the relationship between the two has received surprisingly little attention. Prominent researchers in various areas of...

This book contains a number of studies on modern approaches to phonological segment structure. There are three main sections: (i) a general section, concerned with the basic theory of segmental structure, features, and the organization of segmental structure into feature-geometric trees, (ii) the representation and behaviour of nasality, and (iii) the representation and behaviour of the laryngeal features.

This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness. By analyzing data from a large number of different languages, Nasukawa establishes a clear affinity between nasality and voicing, and demonstrates the advantages of treating these two properties as different phonetic manifestations of a single nasal-voice category. The choice of whether to interpret this category as voicing or nasality is determined by the...