Overview
- Offers a dynamic, exploratory, feature-based approach to phonotactics and morphonotactics
- Discovers the subsegmental motivation for the phonological structure of consonant clusters
- Develops the concept of (positional) feature weight
- Proposes heretofore unidentified rankings of phonotactic preferences
- Uses online processing and casual speech data as sources of external evidence
Part of the book series: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics (PRPHPH)
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Table of contents(7 chapters)
About this book
A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation.
This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.
Authors and Affiliations
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Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Paula Orzechowska
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity in Polish Phonotactics
Book Subtitle: On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences
Authors: Paula Orzechowska
Series Title: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7299-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7298-8Published: 06 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7299-5Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-8700
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8719
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phonology and Phonetics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Computational Linguistics