Studies in Lexical Phonology: Phonetics and Phonology

Language ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
Yen-Hwei Lin ◽  
Sharon Hargus ◽  
Ellen M. Kaisse
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Phonology

The Lexical and Post-Lexical Phonology of Thai Tones*

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Morén ◽  
Elizabeth Zsiga
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Phonology

scholarly journals Compensatory Lengthening in OT and DOT: Loss of Dorsal Fricatives in Middle
or Early Modern English

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Kleban
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Optimality Theory ◽  
Syllable Weight ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Working Solution ◽  
Vowel Lengthening ◽  
Compensatory Lengthening ◽  
Lexical Phonology

The loss of dorsal fricatives in English held significant consequences for the adjacent tautosyllabic vowels, which underwent Compensatory Lengthening in order to preserve a syllable weight. While the process appears to be regular in descriptive terms, its evaluation handled within standard Optimality Theory highlights the ineffectiveness of the framework to parse both the segment deletion and two weight-related processes: Weight- by-Position and vowel lengthening due to mora preservation. As Optimality Theory has failed to analyse the data in a compelling manner, the introduction of derivation, benefitting from the legacy of Lexical Phonology, seems inevitable. The working solution is provided by Derivational Optimality Theory, which assumes a restrictive use of intermediate stages throughout the evaluation.

On ich-Laut, ach-Laut and Structure Preservation

Phonology ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talke Macfarland ◽  
Janet Pierrehumbert
Keyword(s):  
General Constraint ◽  
Structure Preservation ◽  
Special Behaviour ◽  
Lexical Phonology

Hall (1989) introduces a rule of Fricative Assimilation (FA) in German, which, he claims, poses a challenge to the principle of Structure Preservation in Lexical Phonology, as presented in Kiparsky (1985). This claim is based on the observation that FA is demonstrably lexical because it respects morpheme boundaries, but nonetheless introduces a nondistinctive feature, thus violating a marking condition. However, Hall has not appreciated the force of the analysis of Catalan in Kiparsky (1985), which suggests that assimilated sequences may show special behaviour with respect to marking conditions. In this paper we show first, based on arguments in Kiparsky (1985), Hayes (1986) and Itô (1988), that a general constraint on the interpretation of autosegmental formalism specifically rules out the application of the marking condition to the output of FA.

scholarly journals How discourse context shapes the lexicon

Diachronica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther L. Brown ◽  
William D. Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Text ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Modern Distribution ◽  
Contextual Variation ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Internal Sources ◽  
Context Shapes ◽  
Phonological Change ◽  
Lexical Phonology ◽  
Stress Patterns

Using a corpus of Medieval Spanish text, we examine factors affecting the Modern Standard Spanish outcome of the initial /f/ in Latin FV‑ words. Regression analyses reveal that the frequency of a word’s use in extralexical phonetic reducing environments and lexical stress patterns significantly predict the modern distribution of f‑ ([f]) and h‑ (Ø) in the Spanish lexicon of FV‑ words. Quantification of extralexical phonetic context of use has not previously been incorporated in studies of diachronic phonology. We find no effect of word frequency, lexical phonology, word class, or word transmission history. The results suggest that rather than frequency of use, it is more specifically a word’s likelihood of use in contexts favoring reduction that promotes phonological change. The failure to find a significant effect of transmission history highlights the relative importance of language internal sources of change. Results are consistent with usage-based approaches; contextual variation creates differential articulatory pressures among words, yielding variable pronunciations that, when registered in memory, promote diachronic change.

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