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"This breakthrough study argues for a significant link between phonetics and phonology. Its authors propose that phonological rules and representations are tightly constrained by the interaction of formal conditions drawn from a limited universal pool and substantive conditions of a phonetically motivated nature. They support this proposal through principled accounts of a variety of topics such as vowel harmony, neutrality, and underspecification. Unlike much work on this topic, Archangeli and Pullyblank provide an account of their assumptions, defined in a comprehensive theory of phonological rules and representations. The authors survey a range of data, including an investigation of cross-linguistic patterns of ATR Harmony. They demonstrate that their theory is flexible enough to account for variation in individual phonological systems, yet it is firmly constrained by a small set of well-motivated principles. Extensive references throughout the book to published and unpublished work provide a valuable roadmap through this semicharted terrain. The approach in ""Grounded Phonology"" is modular, in that it presents a theory composed of subtheories, each of which is indepentently motivated, and the role of each module is to constrain the range of possibilities (of wellformedness) in its domain. Differences among languages can arise from differing intramodular selections or from interaction among modules."

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Author:   Diana B. Archangeli ,  Douglas Pulleyblank
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Volume:   No. 25
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9780262011372

ISBN 10:   0262011379
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   29 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

A modular phonological theory - modularity in linguistics, an overview, the phonological component, well-formedness - locality and structural relations; combinatorial specification - combinatorial specification, simplicity in F-element combinations, representational simplicity, simplicity in associations - morpheme structure conditions in ngbaka, complete predictability of F-elements, incompatibility of F-elements; grounding conditions - the grounding hypothesis, the distribution of [ATR], the acoustic realization of [ATR], grounded conditions and combinatorial specification, grounded conditions and rules; parametric rules - the four parameters, direction, iteration, rule functions versus rule effects, association by rule, neutrality - transparency and opacity; conclusion - [ATR] in lango, optimality. Appendix: exceptional verb patterns.

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